Monthly Archives: January 2011
coloncolonone.net
Posted by on January 31, 2011
For some reason I decided it was a good idea to register the domain coloncolonone.net. Currently it is only used to serve a static html page, proclaiming the following message. There’s no place like ::1 Any ideas on other, possible slightly more creative, ways to use the domain name?
OpenSSH 5.7, SFTP and hard links
Posted by on January 24, 2011
OpenSSH 5.7 just got released. You can read the full announcement at http://www.openssh.com/txt/release-5.7. Personally I especially appreciate the following improvement to their SFTP stack. sftp(1)/sftp-server(8): add a protocol extension to support a hard link operation. It is available through the “ln” command in the client. The old “ln” behaviour of creating a symlink is available using [...]
Tarsnap Nagios checks
Posted by on January 23, 2011
While I have been using Tarsnap for a while now it is first recently I have gotten around to make Nagios monitor those backups. Given that I really don’t want to give the nagios user any actual access to my backups, I instead take the approach of having my backup script create a status file [...]
Managing passwords using GnuPG, Git and Emacs
Posted by on January 12, 2011
Like any other security conscious and/or slightly paranoid computer geek I have lots and lots of unique and nontrivial passwords to keep track of. My solution to this problem involves having one GnuPG encrypted text file per username/password pair. andreas@stilgar:~/safe$ gpg < example.gpg You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for user: “Andreas [...]
Server configuration and version control
Posted by on January 9, 2011
One of the (few?) good habits I managed to pick up during 2010 was that I became serious about keeping server configuration under version control. While it might primarily have been something I was taught at work it is definitely a practice I have adopted privately as well. The most obvious benefit, and potentially the [...]
