HOWTO: Quick & Easy GPG Key This HOWTO will take you through a quick & basic PGP Key creation and submission to MIT key servers First you need to install gnupg and gnupg-agent. In order to create a key, you will also need a real email address. 1. Open a terminal. 2. type in the [...]

This isn’t my work, I copied it to my blog for safe keeping. The original is here: http://kb.mediatemple.net/questions/247/Common+SSH+Commands Common SSH Commands Applies to: All Service Types Difficulty: Easy Time needed: 5 minutes Tools needed: ssh DETAILS: Not all of these commands will run on all Hosting Products. This is a list of Common commands that [...]

If you live in Spain and use Vodafone as your host provider, you may have seen that they remotely change the “Admin” password which stops you getting access to extra features such as opening specific ports for servers. The “vodafone” user only has a basic mix of user-end tools for the router. So, how do [...]

First install the Sshfs module: sudo apt-get install sshfs Now use modprobe command to load fuse sudo modprobe fuse Need to set up some permissions in to access the utilities. sudo adduser richs fuse sudo chown root:fuse /dev/fuse sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/fusermount Note: you might get this error. “chmd: cannot access ‘/dev/fusermount’ : No such [...]

Adept Linux users would already be thinking about the System > Preferences > Remote Desktop menu entry. Of course we will use that. However, it lets you configure your computer to allow/disallow remote desktop access. It doesn’t let you connect to a remote computer. Extra software is required for that, which we now look into. [...]