Friday, October 27, 2006

ssh rocks!!

I would be talking about ssh-s in this post. One is pretty famous, good old
Secure Shell, and the other is the the worst BOFH in making,
friend and fellow GNU/Linux enthusiast Susmit Shannigrahi.
Fisrt about the last... I have never tried my hands at crimping. On our last attempt, Susmit got evrything required from his second home, Chandni Chowk (the hub center of hardwares in Kolkata), but we lacked the crimping tool. So we had borrowed one from a local shop for a fe bucks. But as I came back, I found the crimps were not done properly the jacks would not go in!
So today, months after that, I took my stuff to Susmit's place and he was kind enough to crimp it again for me. Its working fine now. So our BOFH fails to live up to his name!

Next, the ssh we all are so fond of. I'm making this blogpost through ssh ... uhu, it aint those links or lynx, those commandline browsers ... its Mozilla Debian Package 1.7.12-1.1ubuntu2 running on my Fedora Core 1 box [192.168.11].
No need to setup squid, all I did was to start the sshd ( sudo /etc/init.d/ssh start in my ubuntu box 192.168.1.10 which is connected to the net). Then from by Fedora box, I issue the command
ssh -X -C username@192.168.1.10 mozilla . And believe me, it doesnt feel like its actually from some different machine ... damn fast! This trick was submitted by Yara Pavan Kumar in the Linuxforu April 2006 Issue.
But I have to make this independant ... and would use my Huawei modem as router. But right now, my ubuntu box is being put to some excellent use (orkuting - I hate Orkut Buyukkokten! His creaion, is wasting everyones time, an more importantly, I cant get my Ubuntu box!).
Thanks SSH'S

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

and it's not all! you can use ssh as an ftp server! you can access your files by sftp protocol wich is included by SSH !!!