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This week I was trying to get an RHEL system to authenticate me using my Active Directory credentials. After a bit of looking around, I cam across this wonderful step-by-step procedure to get it done: Attaching a RHEL6 server install to Active Directory for authentication Everything was going on well. I was able to do a local login using: ssh myuser@MYDOMAIN@localhost I just thought it might be cool to try logging in to my newly configured ADS authenticated box over SSH from another machine. So I tried, ssh myuser@MYDOMAIN@192.168.0.1 which obviously didn't work. The shell was treating "MYDOMAIN@192.168.0.1" as the hostname. With a little bit of playing around I found out that the following worked: ssh "MYDOMAIN\myuser"@192.168.0.1 It looks like specifying the domain the way usually Windows expects it really did work if it was enclosed in quotes!

My aim was to allow a couple of colleagues to ssh into my shared hosting server at GoDaddy. If it was any other server, I could have very well created another user which could be used by anyone else who needs access to the server. But, on GoDaddy shared hosting servers you get just one ssh user, hence this blog entry. As described in Max Beatty's  blog , its a very simple job. But my approach was a little different, I did not want to keep copying everyone's public key into my godaddy server's .ssh/authorized_keys2 file. Instead of that, I created a new public/private key pair [ausmarton@ausmarton ~]$ ssh-keygen Next, step which is similar to Max's approach is to copy the newly generated public key onto our server. [ausmarton@ausmarton ~]$ scp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub user@remote-host:.ssh/authorized_keys2 If you're on a linux system, you can use ssh-copy-id, which does it quite neatly. [ausmarton@ausmarton ~]$ ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub remote-host Now, you just need...

This post is a very trivial one, but it's just that I've found myself ignoring these things time and again. Every time I need to setup a new system for development in PHP or Drupal, I've ran into almost all of these small "issues". I would always prefer to have the working copy of the code somewhere in my home directory , and maybe have it symlinked from the directory which is set as my "Document Root" in Apache. # cd /var/www/html # ln -s ~ausmarton/Public/website/drupal-7.7 drupal Assuming, everything is set up and will work, I go ahead to access the application in my browser, just to find out that all I can get is a big "Forbidden"  message. Now, this happens because, in linux, to be able to access the contents of a directory, you should have the 'x' permission. But, unfortunately, home directories are by default set not to be accessible by anyone other than the designated user. drwx------. 37 ausmarton ausmarton  4096 Aug 25 17:08 a...