Tag Archives: security

Get around that pesky firewall filtering with tsocks

I gen­er­ally don’t have any issues know­ing some­one might be snoop­ing on a bit of my traf­fic. How­ever there are times you may want your traf­fic to be a bit more pri­vate. For exam­ple if your boss is a rag­ing tyrant and your look­ing for a new job, and you know the sky would fall

Restricting SSH commands

SSH is a pow­er­ful tool. When com­bined with ssh keys, it becomes easy to auto­mate remote pro­ce­dures like back­ups. How­ever leav­ing key access wide open can be a bad idea. It is pos­si­ble to use restrict ssh keys to spe­cific com­mands, even com­ing from spe­cific hosts. There is this nice lit­tle perl script called Auth­progs

Automatic session logging and monitoring with GNU screen for the paranoid.

Yes its been a while since I have checked in. Sorry I’ve just been too busy. But I have a great tip this time. Recently I had the need to do auto­matic ses­sion log­ging. A 3rd party was going to be log­ging into one of my servers to check out some soft­ware glitches that were