Monthly Archives: September 2010
password caching with sshpass
| 28-Sep-2010 | Posted by Sonia Hamilton under |
sshpass – a tool for non-interactively performing password authentication with SSH’s so called “interactive keyboard password authentication” – useful for automation scripts where you are unable to use ssh keys.
Of course using ssh keys plus an ssh-agent or ssh keychain (even for cron jobs) is more secure. But I’m working with a proprietary, linux based system where some pointy-headed-boss decided that it’s safer to disable key based authentication, because, well, I don’t know (because they don’t understand key based authentication?).
A work mate came across sshpass, and we use it by caching the password in an env variable. Slightly safer than the older version, where our expect scripts just pulled the password out of a file 
Scrapheap Challenge – Favourite Geek Show
| 08-Sep-2010 | Posted by Sonia Hamilton under film |
My favourite geek show – Scrapheap Challenge – 6.30pm weekdays on ABC2. Two teams are let loose in a junkyard and they compete to build a something within 12 hours eg a engine propelled boat, a rocket, a diving suit. Second favourite – Mythbusters of course.
Having a PVR makes these easy to record and watch at better times…
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