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Monthly Archives: October 2009

ssh-copy-id and sshd port 9

For security purposes, I don’t run sshd on the default port (22). This gave me some problems when attempting to use the command ssh-copy-id. Ideally, you’d expect the following to work: 1 ssh-copy-id -p XXXX -i ‘~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub’ username@host However, that didn’t do anything but output an error: Bad port ‘umask 077; test -d .ssh || [...]

gnome-screensaver: What happens when you can’t unlock your PC. 0

This is an issue that has irritated me enough that I feel I should post my work-around. On Ubuntu (I’m not sure since what version – I’m currently using 9.04 Jaunty), I’ve noticed that every once in a while, gnome-screensaver would hang when I tried to log back in. Let me clarify a little. When [...]