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Re: I got one! So, some questions... by The Happiness Engine 06/17/2013, 2:54pm PDT
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:

I know people say you don't need a UI. I need a UI. I have tried Freenx, Remote Desktop and TightViewer. If I do get in, I get a black or a gray screen. Nnnngh. I need to read up on x server versus KDE versus gnome versus vncserver and see what does what. This isn't really a question.

lern 2 bash. I'm a sysadmin, sorry. Trying to run some Xwindows bullshit will eat all your resources and still suck terribly. Pretend you're 14 and trying to load DOOM2.

So, another friend of mine is gonna access the machine as well. He frequently goes to coffee shops to code. I would also like to be able to access this from anywhere in the world. So I want to lock down ssh... since he and I use Windows, how do we make rsa keys? It LOOKS like this will do it?

With Windows, everyone uses putty because the alternatives are all somehow impossibly more terrible. Putty can generate keys, but hilariously refuses to store them in openssh format. It will show you the key once when you generate it though so copy and save that. Because I'm a retarded it took me awhile to get a good keypair analogy: the public key is a lock and the private key is well, a key. So put your public key everywhere and keep your private key safe. On a linux machine the public key goes in ~/.ssh/known_hosts, one key per line. Install something like denyhosts or fail2ban to lock out people to try to brute-force ssh but otherwise leave it unfirewalled. On the subject of firewalling, just use this. My ruleset is like all of 5 lines. You'll probably want to setup /etc/ssh/sshd_config to not allow password-only logins.


What on earth is "domain.com" doing? All the tutorials say you can have anything there for domain.com. I don't see how it can be arbitrary. I don't see how it can be arbitrary and still provide some useful function, haha.

I think this was covered well enough, but your hosts file is just a way to shortcut DNS. You put an IP, an FQDN (ideally), then a space-separated list of short hostnames. Do you want to be able to type "telnet bob" and have it do something? That's your file. Unless something stupid seems to be happening ignore it.
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Linux VPS Hosting by Ice Cream Jonsey 05/22/2013, 9:12am PDT NEW
    yep by jeep 05/22/2013, 9:27am PDT NEW
        ditto by The Happiness Engine 05/22/2013, 4:19pm PDT NEW
            Re: ditto by Ice Cream Jonsey 05/23/2013, 8:41am PDT NEW
                Re: ditto by The Happiness Engine 05/23/2013, 3:55pm PDT NEW
                    I use no-ip.org instead of dyndns. It's free as all hell. NT by Last 05/24/2013, 7:37pm PDT NEW
            Re: ditto by Ice Cream Jonsey 05/23/2013, 8:44am PDT NEW
                Re: ditto by The Happiness Engine 05/23/2013, 3:48pm PDT NEW
                    there's literally an rpm just to turn on auto yum update NT by jeep 05/24/2013, 6:34pm PDT NEW
    I have a related question by motherfuckerfoodeater 05/23/2013, 11:54pm PDT NEW
        I haven't done a strict comparison by The Happiness Engine 05/24/2013, 3:01pm PDT NEW
            Drunken followup after rereading the original question by The Happiness Engine 05/24/2013, 3:08pm PDT NEW
        I have, linode's cheaper by jeep 05/24/2013, 6:35pm PDT NEW
            if you need tons of them ec2 is better and has the cool api shit NT by jeep 05/24/2013, 6:36pm PDT NEW
    I got one! So, some questions... by Ice Cream Jonsey 06/08/2013, 10:29am PDT NEW
        Re: I got one! So, some questions... by blackwater 06/17/2013, 12:09am PDT NEW
            Re: I got one! So, some questions... by Fullofkittens 06/17/2013, 7:24am PDT NEW
                Re: I got one! So, some questions... by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/17/2013, 9:20am PDT NEW
        Re: I got one! So, some questions... by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/17/2013, 4:41am PDT NEW
        Re: I got one! So, some questions... by motherfuckerfoodeater 06/17/2013, 10:42am PDT NEW
        This may be a strange question, but by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/17/2013, 10:56am PDT NEW
            Have you thought about rooting yourself? It saves us time. NT by Sincerely, Haxx0rs 06/17/2013, 2:44pm PDT NEW
            Fucking Christ, Paul NT by Entropy Stew 06/17/2013, 9:33pm PDT NEW
        I just thought, how about the reverse? by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/17/2013, 11:08am PDT NEW
        Re: I got one! So, some questions... by The Happiness Engine 06/17/2013, 2:54pm PDT NEW
 
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