  nwrickert sand groper Premium,MVM join:2004-09-04 Geneva, IL
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| reply to sempergoofy Re: Supporting my elderly mom's Linux
I suggest that you create a public/private key pair, and test using that for logins with ssh. When you have that working, configure sshd so that only public key authentication is allowed. That gives additional security to the use of ssh.
And yes, you should be able to do most administration via an ssh connection.
If you are running your own linux system, with any kind of accessible service (apache, sshd, etc), you could have crontab on your mother's system automatically connect to your system every 15 minutes. It doesn't have to do anything after connecting, other than disconnect. That will leave you a trail of IP address changes in your logs, and you will have a good chance of having the current IP on hand. -- AT&T dsl; Speedstream 5100b modem; openSuSE 11.0; firefox 3.0.11 |
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  sempergoofy Premium join:2001-07-06 Smyrna, GA
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| said by nwrickert :I suggest that you create a public/private key pair, and test using that for logins with ssh. When you have that working, configure sshd so that only public key authentication is allowed. That gives additional security to the use of ssh. And yes, you should be able to do most administration via an ssh connection. If you are running your own linux system, with any kind of accessible service (apache, sshd, etc), you could have crontab on your mother's system automatically connect to your system every 15 minutes. It doesn't have to do anything after connecting, other than disconnect. That will leave you a trail of IP address changes in your logs, and you will have a good chance of having the current IP on hand. Good idea! Will try to do that.
Supporting OpenSuSE remotely via SSH is something I have done quite a bit of (except for VNC). Invoking Yast after logging in as or switching to root is easy.
Good idea on the crontab, too. But I reckon the dyndns.org solution is easy and free and the router seems to support it. -- nohup rm -fr /& |
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| Ive not had good luck with the dyndns updater built into the linksys firmwares, I ended up walking my dad through installing the updater on his PC after the router-based updater failed for the 4th time. -- Guilty or Innocent? You Decide... »Pub Games |
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| said by Paulg :Ive not had good luck with the dyndns updater built into the linksys firmwares, I ended up walking my dad through installing the updater on his PC after the router-based updater failed for the 4th time. Hmm. Thanks for the heads up. If it fails on the router I bought for mom then I'll do the same. I can always coach her to use »whatismyip.com/ or get into the router itself if need be. -- nohup rm -fr /& |
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  ropeguru Premium join:2001-01-25 Bridgeport, WV clubs: | reply to Paulg That is why I suggested dd-wrt or maybe even tomato. |
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