Archive for September 28th, 2012
ssh-agent messiness & solving it
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Programming on September 28, 2012
I’ve known about ssh-agent for a while, but as I was practically permanently using PuTTY (on Windows), I only bothered with learning about Pageant. But Git uses ssh to connect to github, and I was getting tired of typing in my password with every push. I got annoyed with InteliJ for making me type in […]
Getting OpenVPN to work on an OpenVZ VPS
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Linux, Sysadmin on September 28, 2012
Note: This is a personal VPN, so I just used static keys. A general guide to getting OpenVPN set up is available on the OpenVPN website, but this guide is targeted at CentOS 5 on an OpenVZ VPS. This guide should be usable in other RH derivatives without much (any?) modification; and with slight modifications […]
iptables fun and games
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Linux, Sysadmin on September 28, 2012
Note to self: When configuring iptables, don’t copy + paste /sbin/iptables -F /sbin/iptables -P INPUT DROP <bunch of other commands> into bash. I had A Bad Time.