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SSH vs VPN

Mon, 11 Nov 2024 11:45:58 +0100

When I deploy an application to a server that is owned by the customer or the customers IT provider, they very often require me to setup a virtual private network (VPN) connection. I tell them about Secure Shell (SSH) protocol and how is better fit for this use case. As they are used to Windows server environment, where SSH is mostly absent, they insist on using VPNs.

In this post I will compare the two technologies and explain why SSH is the better option in this use case.

Store and load SSH keys in KeePass

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 11:03:41 +0200

I learned about this KeePass feature way too late. With KeePass you can store and load your SSH keys in a secure and encrypted way. No more worrying about your SSH private key being exposed or accessed on your local machine.

Copy SSH private key to Termux

Thu, 22 Aug 2024 08:40:10 +0200

Termux is a beautiful terminal emulator Android app. As I am working mostly on the command line I wanted to be able to do the same on phone. And most importantly in a case of emergency where I don’t have access to my computer I want to able to access my servers and run some commands. This requires to setup existing SSH private keys in the Termux.

Bash SSH host auto completion

Thu, 21 Feb 2019 10:59:37 +0100

By default the ssh command does not support auto completion for host names. However, it stores all hosts you have accessed in the ~/.ssh/known_hosts file. We can take this data and use it for an auto completion function.

Setup SSH on Windows 10

Fri, 19 Jan 2018 11:55:48 +0000

I have started a new job and as usual had to set up a new computer. Using Windows in a Unix environment seems like a bad choice at first. However, Microsoft has changed strategy and embraced the Unix world with projects such as Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) or Windows SQL Server support for Linux. In result you can install bash with WSL and use the native ssh client. But there is also another way. If you install Git for Windows a ssh binary is shipped as well. This binary and other tools such as ssh-keygen are not available from the command line by default. I want show you how to fix this, setup a keypair and start using ssh in a Windows environment.

SSH and network hardening

Fri, 21 Mar 2014 18:19:12 +0000

This post is part of my Your own Virtual Private Server hosting solution project.
Get the latest version of this article here: https://gist.github.com/9346641.

Requirements

Ubuntu server

Instructions

Step by Step: Install Ghost Blog

Mon, 03 Mar 2014 16:34:55 +0000

Latest Version of this guide: https://gist.github.com/8542013

Finishing this guide you"ll get:

A running Ghost installation
Amazon SES mail configuration
Simple ssh hardenings
Nginx proxy
Node.js configured with forever

Specification of latest running installation:

Date: 21.01.2014
OS: Ubuntu 64 bit - 12.04.4 LTS
Provider: Amazon EC2
Mail service: Amazon SES
Browser: Google Chrome - 31.0.1650.63
Ghost: 0.4
Node: 0.10.24
npm: 1.3.21