SSH Feedback After bantering about our upcoming travels to Waynesville, Missouri and Toronto, Ontario and a little griping about zipit segmentation faults, we get into your feedback on recent SSH segments. Dzaztur recommends Gnome SSH Tunnel Manager. It's a sleek front-end for managing SSH tunnels, port redirects and more. Tunnel configuration is stored in a simple XML formal, great for portability, and the tunnels can be managed individually through one simple GUI. Thanks for the tip Dzaztur Lozo points out that Mac OS-X has SSH built into the terminal, much like Linux. So true. We banter with Paul-the-camera-guy about the Mac OS-X kernel, which turns out is XNU -- an accronym for X is Not Unix. So there ya go! Sp4m says if you're running Firefox over SSH you might want to look into remote DNS lookups. By default DNS lookups aren't done through the proxy. This can be resolved by typing about:config in the address bar, and enabling the network.proxy.socks_remote_dns setting. Thanks Sp4m. And Finally Post_Break from IamTheKiller.net points us to Secret Socks -- a SSH Socks Proxy GUI front-end for Mac OS-X that he likes a ton more than SSHTunnel 1.6. [Edit: We made a mistake and called it Secure Socks in the segment] And finally we go kitteh before moving on... 00:36 Play Certificate Authentication for SSH In this segment Darren explains why certificate authentcation is a bajillion times better than password authentcation and demonstrates the configuration using Ubuntu 9.10 ...
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