Weirdest thing about my FreeBSD server that’s been bugging me for a long time.. I’m able to create rsa/dsa keys for passwordless logins but the catch was that it would only work if I was root on the client machine loggin in as root on the server. After 6 hours of trouble shooting and mostly relying on the geniuses over at #freebsdhelp on efnet, running sshd in debug mode, running ssh in -vvv mode it came down to a stupid little error in the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file.
The line in question was:
AuthorizedKeysFile ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2
and whoever set it up originally bunged it up because it needs to be
AuthorizedKeysFile %h/.ssh/authorized_keys2
to work properly or else sshd will always refer to /root/.ssh/authorized_keys2 no matter who’s loggin in..
Hopefully this will help someone else save the nearly full work day of time to narrow this mother trucker down
the unconventional toothbrush 15 years ago. Today, Komiyama and his colleague Dr. Gerry Uswak are seeking recruits to test their newest model, the Soladey-J3X. The toothbrush, which is manufactured by the Shiken company of Japan, will soon be tested by 120 teenagers to see how it compares to a normal toothbrush.
While this isn’t a reason for productivity or efficiency it certainly improves your mental state throughout your work day. When you get experienced with linux you literally feel like a wizard. Because, more often than not, it is more efficient to do things sans GUI you really get into the guts of the system, and because of the customizability of absolutely everything those guts begin to evolve over time, guided by your hand and personal style. Not just in the aesthetics of the operating system but also the very command structure in terminal. You build shell scripts for absolutely everything and so as your O/S ages it becomes more and more unique to you meaning that even another experienced linux user wouldn’t be able to sit down and accomplish what I can accomplish with my OS. This causes a very deep and personal connection with you OS, as it works the way it works only for you and no one else. So when you are going nuts in it, uses all of the little nuances that only you know you completely feel like a wizard because for anyone else looking over your shoulder, even another linux user it will look like magic at times. Now for a non-linux user you can literally get away with renaming yourself Gandalf the Grey without anyone questioning it because none of what you are doing will make any sense at all but the results from your magic will be so far beyond what they even thought was possible in terms of efficiency, productivity, organisation and overall coolness with an operating system.
