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SSH RemoteCommand over netcat hopping, or not.

Patrick Debois‘ article on Chaining SSH tunnels inspired me to effectively start using this technique. At first my use case was pretty simple. It wasn’t the host I needed to connect to which behind a firewall, but, as it turned out, I was. I’ve got a box at home listening on a high port, as […] Continue reading

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Linux-Training site updated

The Linux Training web site was updated earlier this week – Linux Training is Paul Cobbaut‘s training book project. No fancy new flash website, just some simple pages, with some links to the git repository with the Docbook source code, the download page and some more stuff. I should add a short introduction about how […] Continue reading

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ldap pam authentication exclusively for openvpn only

I needed to implement ldap authentication and authorsiation for an openvpn setup which until now used a simple password file. Lots of howto’s tell you to update the standard PAM login service to use ldap, and to have openvpn use that login service for authentication. I expect in most cases you’ll probably just want to […] Continue reading

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