Tag Archives: OpenSSH
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 [...]
ssh-agent without the Gnome keyring
Posted by on March 1, 2010
In a default Ubuntu, and probably any other modern Gnome based Linux desktop, the Gnome keyring takes the role of the ssh-agent. If this is not desirable you can tell the keyring not to do that by setting the gconf variable /apps/gnome-keyring/daemon-components/ssh to false. $ gconftool -s –type bool /apps/gnome-keyring/daemon-components/ssh false At the next login [...]
