As usual I had the desire to have a non-common set-up, which was presumably more secure or at the very least more fun to get working. In this case, after rebuilding my server, I wanted to recreate the sshfs setup I had going on in the past, but this time while using a separate IdentityFile, non-common portnumber and incorporated in my /etc/fstab file. Somehow I forgot how I managed to get that working in the past, so for my own sake and the sake of others seeking help with this, I wrote down the steps I took to get this working, below.
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Archive for the ‘Server’ Category
Mounting a remote file system over ssh using sshfs and non-standard settings
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010NTPq refuses to provide info on peers
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009While equipping my fresh Gentoo server with NTP capabilities I was wondering why after a couple of minutes after starting ntpd, ntpq -p (or ntpq -c peers) was shouting “ntpq: read: Connection refused” at me… What is going on?
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Scanning for Conficker using Nmap under Gentoo Linux
Monday, May 18th, 2009Well, that was what I wanted. I know, Conficker was hot months ago. But hey, I’m not often around Windows machines and I thought that while I was, I might just as well scan my parents’s network.
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