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June 23rd, 2009

Angie

Pair Foo

Mark Abrams Foo Dog / Lion Lamp Pair

Traditional Oriental design gets a contemporary twist in this elegant Chinese Foo Dog lamp pair.

Classic Chinese decor often uses brave “Dogs of Foo”, which are traditionally held to be the guardians of heaven. Pairs of these stylized lions were often placed at temple gates for protection, and they are seen as symbols of valor and energy.

Designer Mark Abrams has taken these Chinese icons and …

Foo Dog Classic Table Lamp

The Foo Dog Classic Table Lamp is available with either a left or right facing foo dog. The round top shade is a chocolate cotton fabric and square cut corner softback with gold gimp trim. The foo dog has protective powers and traditionally they were placed as a pair in front of Imperial Palaces in China. This lamp features a more cheerful foo dog and with the rich, chocolate brown of the shade gi…

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Securing SSH Sessions The Easy Way

Recently I’ve had a good deal of people ask me about SSH connections, and how they can better secure them, and I’ve been shocked at the sheer number of people that still use keyboard-interactive password authentication to log into SSH daemons. This article will explain the use of SSH keys and OpenSSH options to speed up and secure your SSH connection.

SSH options

There are a few useful options you can pass to OpenSSH to increase your verbosity, compress and speed up your ssh connection, and change your SSH cipher to something faster and more secure;

‘-v’ switch. This option will allow you to see debug output for outgoing SSH connections. Specifying ‘-v’ multiple times increases the verbosity level (maximum level 3).

‘-C’ switch. This option compresses all of your SSH data. Passing this option to OpenSSH may speed things up dramatically on slow networks, but on high-speed networks it will only slow things down.

‘-c’ switch. This option will allow you to change your cipher method. The default is 3des, which is a 3-way encryption method that is believed to be secure – however, blowfish is also available, which is a fast block cipher which also believed to be very secure and is far faster than 3des.

For example, let’s say I want to log in as user ‘foo’ to an ssh daemon on host ‘example.com’. I want maximum verbosity level, I want to compress all my data, and I want to change my SSH cipher to blowfish. The command would look like this:

ssh -vvv -C -c blowfish -l foo example.com

(Note: the higher your verbosity level, the more text you will get on your terminal while OpenSSH goes through the process of logging in to the remote SSH daemon. Even specifying only one -v can get you a veritable flood of information. Fiddle around with -v until you find a debug level that you’re comfortable with.)

SSH keys

OpenSSH supports a method of authentication far more secure than keyboard-interactive password authentication using a combination of public/private key cryptography. A pair of keys is generated, one on the remote machine to authenticate you and let you in. The other is a private key to match the key on the remote machine.

To generate a pair of cryptographic keys, you would use the ssh-keygen(1) utility on both the machine you intend to log in to, and the machine you intend to log in from. For example;

ssh-keygen -t rsa

The -t option specifies the type of key to be generated. Available options are dsa and rsa.

Inputting this command on either of your UNIX machines should give you an output like this:

$ ssh-keygen -t rsa
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/home/example/.ssh/id_rsa):
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
Enter same passphrase again:
Your identification has been saved in /home/example/.ssh/id_rsa.
Your public key has been saved in /home/example/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.

Setting a passphrase is highly recommended to maximize security. Good passphrases are between 10 and 30 characters long, and are not easily guessable in any way. If you do not enter a passphrase, you will be able to login to your remote system without entering any password on login.

The next step is to authorize your keys on the remote machine you intend to log in to. You can do this using a file named authorized_keys on your target machine. Copy your ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub file onto your remote machine using scp(1)

scp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub example.com:.ssh/authorized_keys

Now log in to your target machine using ssh(1) with a debug level of 1
as previously shown;

ssh -v -C -c blowfish -l foo example.com

You will see debug messages like so;

debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,keyboard-interactive
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Offering public key: /home/example/.ssh/id_rsa
debug1: Server accepts key: pkalg ssh-dss blen 435
debug1: read PEM private key done: type rsa

You should then be prompted for your key passphrase (if you entered one) and then let into the system. If you didn’t enter a passphrase upon generating your public/private keys, you will be passed through without having to enter any. If you encounter errors, you should check the permissions of your ~/.ssh directories on both machines.

If you wish to change your key passphrase at any time, you can do so by passing the -p flag to the ssh-keygen utility;

ssh-keygen -p

Need answers, FAST! 10 points?

Well Easter is tomorrow, as everyone knows. And I am going to my Godmother’s house as I do every year. I usually look very nice for easter cause my Mom or friends help me pick out an outfit…this year im on my own. My mom was no help. Im not the kind of person that can pick out nice outfits. My dad called me a greaser once- that’s when i realized i don’t dress “nice” A normal outfit of mine consists of
Tee-shirt (Hurley, foo fighters, band tee shirts)
distressed jeans, little rips, holes, marks
high top converse
For Easter-
Tommy Hilfiger flip flops (we take our shoes off in the house)
Jeans- none ripped ones [i found one pair of some what nice ones!]
Help me with the shirt/jacket/top w.e
Idk i will take all suggestions :]
Thanks!!
I need help with make up too
I own ALOTTT

Okay with the top a pink cardigan and a cute cami from Hollister of Abercrombie & Fitch will be adorable- they are on sale at the moment. Get the shipped fast or go today. And this outfit will look cute with the jeans and the flipflops- depends on color. Or go with a baby doll top. And for makeup foundation- a skin tone eyeshadow on the lids with the color of the cardigan or tank skimming on the lashes for eyeshadow. Mascara on top-curl them .Then go light on the eyeliner and the line the eyeliner with a smoky black which gives it its final touch.
Hopefully that helped