Archive for October, 2006

Restricting ssh password auth by group or shell

Monday, October 30th, 2006

Matt Brown asked if I could think of any way to allow a certain group of users to scp into a host and use a password, while requiring a valid key pair for most other users. Perry suggested a solution to this a while ago, so I sat down and ...

Backspace in Firefox 2

Wednesday, October 25th, 2006

As part of my upgrade to Edgy the other day, Firefox was upgraded to 2.0. It's been upgraded every day since then, and is I think finally running a real 2.0 build [code] $ apt-cache show firefox | grep Version Version: 2.0+0dfsg-0ubuntu3 [/code] The biggest interface changes I've noticed to Firefox 2 so far include ...

Edgy Eft RC1 announced

Friday, October 20th, 2006

After seeing this announcement for the Edgy Eft RC1 release, I decided to upgrade my Dapper laptop to Edgy. Thanks to the NZ mirror already being up to date, it didn't take long to download the 700MB of packages that I needed. I'd like to say the upgrade went smoothly, ...