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System Management

• 12.17.07
  SOCKS 5 HTTP proxy via SSH   Security, Windows, System Management, Linux (0)

  If you don’t trust the network your on, wan’t to appear to be in another location or need to bypass forced (aka transparent) proxying of your web traffic SOCKS proxying over an SSH tunnel maybe for you!
  It’s very straight forward on Windows or Linux, the one thing you do need though is some other computer […]

• 09.25.07
  SSH tunnel via a middle system   System Management, Linux (1)

  Often you need to create a tunnel from one system to another, this is simple enough to do. Either you want to forward a local port on your system to a remote system securely (think POP3 etc) which you can do like this on the local system:

  ssh -f -N -L 110:localhost:110 ruser@remote.system.com
  Then you would configure […]

• 03.09.07
  Building RPM’s as non-root user   System Management, Linux (1)

  As is recommended by the new RPM book it is always a good idea to build RPMS as a user other than root. It’s very simple to do this, just run the following commands in order -

  echo “%_topdir $HOME/rpm” > ~/.rpmmacros
  mkdir -p $HOME/rpm/{BUILD,RPMS,SOURCES,SPECS,SRPMS}
  mkdir -p $HOME/rpm/RPMS/{i386,i586,i686,noarch}
  Thats it; you can install SRPMS in your home directory […]

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