socks proxy

SSH as SOCKs 5 proxy

This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series SSH Best Practices

Let’s say, for example, that “someone” is traffic shaping our peer 2 peer connections or eavesdropping traffic in general, blocking myfavoritesite.net or any other domain/service… Here’s a really cool antidote: SSH proxy. I think it’s a really nice gesture to give someone the access on something that’s been blocked without his permission. To use ssh […]

socks proxy

Linux user account with ssh-only permissions

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series SSH Best Practices

SSH (among other things) is a secure way of proxy-ing your traffic, web browsing or accessing a  service remotely  which is blocked by a firewall. In case we want someone else to have that access or securely proxying his traffic etc etc,  we need to provide a user account with ssh-only access to our ssh […]

Linux home directory encryption 1

Linux home directory encryption

Encrypting the $HOME directory under ubuntu/debian and other dists. In my case my $USER is “ubuntu” so be careful to replace that with your own user. Be sure to have more than the double free space in your $HOME than the size of the files to complete the migration, else copy your files temporarily in […]