Dec 4, 2009 0
Let’s say you have a half-dozen machines at work you want to log into. Instead of setting up a remote forwarding connection from each of those machines, you can have the connection from your main machine perform multiple forwardings instead of just one. This even works if some of the machines don’t support ssh.
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As I mentioned in a previous post on ssh configuration, your config file can specify a variety settings for each server. In fact, the Hosts you use don’t even have to exist! Consider the following snippet in your ~/.ssh/config.
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Local port forwarding is the same as remote port forwarding but works in the opposite direction. An example is the clearest way to explain…
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Ssh tunneling can be a bit mind bending at first, but it’s simple when you get used to it.
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Do you log in to several servers with different usernames via ssh? Save typing by telling ssh which username to use on each server.
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The ctypes module makes loading and calling into a dynamic library incredibly easy.
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I’ve had this code around for a while and had an opportunity to drag it out the other day and dust it off. The problem: Every now and again there’s a situation where you don’t really want to catch an exception, but you do want to perform some cleanup and let the exception propagate up [...]
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Thanks for your patience, and for coming back for a discussion of deploying our Django web app. In case you missed any of the previous posts in this series, here they are: Day One, Get Ready (Concept and prep) Day Two, Mockups (Creating a design) Day Three, Coding (Coding tests, views, templates, and models) Pre-Deployment [...]
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Thanks for coming back for Day Three! [Note: Sorry this post is a day late. It was all ready to go late yesterday, but some of the code included below triggered a bug either in WordPress or ScribeFire and the whole post got mangled. I managed to resurrect it today from drafts, and I think [...]
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Welcome back. Ready for Day Two? Did you get your “hello world” app running on your host? Where We Stand Yesterday we nailed down our concept, bought a domain name and hosting, set up our toolkit, and deployed a practice app on the host. Here’s what I’m going to build: a web app to keep [...]
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