Archive for "Feb 2009"

jail time: chroot’ed sftp with rssh

Installing rssh to allow scp/sftp sessions only for user accounts is a breeze. Getting them into a chroot jail took a bit more reseach, but in the end turned out to be pretty easy. This is on CentOS 4.6, but this technique should work almost identically for any Linux system thanks to the l2chroot script.

a really easy migration to github from subversion

Yep, I’m trying to git on the bandwagon too. Last fall I dropped a small set of plugin files into github as a test, which was easy enough. But never had the time to figure out how to get all the other plugins, libraries and frameworks we use in there without moving everything over, including [...]

TiVo file and app sharing with a linux-based home network

Set this up late last year, and just documenting now in case I forget, or if any of my legions of readers are curious. Galleon is a open-source java client/server app that uses Tivo’s Home Media Engine system to allow all sorts of file and application sharing between a Tivo and other networked entities. It [...]

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