First generate a public key

		1.rrs@geeKISSexy:~$ ssh-keygen -t dsa  
                2.Generating public/private dsa key pair.  
                3.Enter file in which to save the key (/home/rrs/.ssh/id_dsa):  
                4.Created directory '/home/rrs/.ssh'.  
                5.Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):  
                6.Enter same passphrase again:  
                7.Your identification has been saved in /home/rrs/.ssh/id_dsa.  
                8.Your public key has been saved in /home/rrs/.ssh/id_dsa.pub.  
          
Enter the command "ssh-keygen -t dsa" (line 1.).  
When prompted on file where key is saved just hit "Enter" (line 3.).  
When prompted for a passphrase just hit "Enter" (line 5.).  
When prompted to confirm passphrase hit "Enter" a second time (line 6.).   
Once you have created your public key you can copy it to the server.   
          
  
                1.rrs@geeKISSexy:~$ ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub rrs@learner  
                25  
                3.The authenticity of host 'learner (192.168.1.1)' can't be established.  
                4.RSA key fingerprint is 8a:8a:53:b3:1c:d6:72:b5:e9:e8:7d:c7:81:8c:6f:0b.  
                5.Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes  
                6.Warning: Permanently added 'learner' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.  
                7.rrs@learner's password:  
                8.Now try logging into the machine, with "ssh 'rrs@learner'", and check in:  
          
Enter the command "ssh-copy-id -i [location of key] [username@server IP] (line 1.).  
You may get some complaints due to defaults but when prompted to continue enter "yes" (line 5.).    
You will next be prompted to enter the user's password (line 7.). Remember the user password must be the same on the the client and server  
Finally you will be asked to see if you can log in via ssh on the server (line 8.).   
If everything is correct you should now be able to log in on the server in a your user account without having to enter a password.   
          
  
                rrs@geeKISSexy:~$ ssh rrs@learner  
                Last login: Sat Aug 12 11:21:54 2006

My Hometown.

My Home.
My other house

Wow!

This is called freedom. **Bootsplash **has been a great eye-candy application in the Linux arena but now it’s time to say goodbye.

I just tried splashy and its a charm. The great thing is that it doesn ’t need a patched kernel. So newbies or people who don’t prefer to rollout their own kernel can use splashy and have a clean boot up.

I’m happy that a new release has been possible.

This new release is almost a complete re-write and has many fixes and features.

For details, visit:

http://pypt-offline.sf.net

There’s also a small HOWTO about pypt-offline

Cheers!

Ritesh

pypt-offline – An Offline Package Manager
(C) 2005, 2006 Ritesh Raj Sarraf rrs@researchut.com

INTRODUCTION

So you’ve decided to give this small piece of work a try.
Good ! Let’s get it done faster.

pypt-offline is an offline package management tool written in the Python Programming Language. This program, as of now, is intended for people using Debian (And Debian based) systems.

Disclaimer: YMMV

I had always had failures with Software Suspend 2 (swsusp2) on my laptop because of which I had a perception that it really wasn’t ready for use for beta users also. But recently after reading the comments of many users on LWN I felt how wrong I actuall was.

Anyways, setting up swsusp2 with root/swap on LVM is a little tricky. From my past experience I’ve felt that to be the major reason for me to not able to use this excellent feature.

Creative Destructivity by Raghavendra Buddi

Good Morning. Good Food. Good Place…….

Finally, I ended up with a change.

Abnormal Program Termination are not something just seen on Microsoft Windows. I hope most users will have seen some kind of program error in GNU/Linux and *BSD platforms also.

Abnormal Program Termination can happen for multiple reasons of which Programming Errors are one of the major reasons. Badly Carelessly written programs often end up having such bugs.

Here’s a sample C program which has generic programming errors because of which the compiler doesn’t catch it but the program does do unexpected behavior.

I always keep forgetting where the colon (;) key should be placed in a Bash endless loop so thought of jotting it down.

while true; do ls; done

It really is amazing to see no more spam coming to my blog. Kudos to the Pivot team who’ve done a great job integrating spam features into this great software. Also the spam cleanup utility (integrated into the application) is excellent. Thanks.