Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Login server using ssh

Ssh is an alternative for telnet which is safe compared to telnet one can use it for remote login which is highly secured

Normally ssh client will be there in side Linux os you have to install ssh server

main configuration file is

vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config
Here you can mention
1. What port to use
2.what kind of key you want to use (Rsa or dsa)
3.Add users who wants to access the system
4.Gui forwarding
5.Can use password as well passphrase (Better is pass phrase)
6.start sshd service (/etc/init.d/sshd start)

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curl and cacert

curl -v --cacert cacert.pem https://www.example/cgi-bin/f ile.xgi -I -X POST