Never think your password is complicated enough

Last week I was asked to help a friend to check out his server that has been hacked. First I was thinking some kind of PHP leak or SQL injection. But I was wrong. The crack uses some kind of SSH user/password scanner and got his root password.
I find this out because the cracker created […]

an introduction to openssh part 4 — SSH on Windows

It is ideal if we can live in a Unix only world. However sometimes we’ll need MS windows. In this part we’ll talk about using OpenSSH, or SSH in general, on MS Windows platform. On the OpenSSH Alternatives for Windows page, there is a list of available free/open source software. We’ll talk about the two […]

An introduction to OpenSSH part 3 — Port forwarding

(originally posted at www.linuxboxadmin.com )
Last time when we talked about transfering files over OpenSSH, I said you can use port forwarding if you insist to use your favorite FTP client, and we have a brief HOW-TO there. This time, we’ll take a deeper look at port forwarding.

How port forwarding works.Normally network protocols works on two […]

An introduction to OpenSSH part 2 — copy files

(originally posted at www.linuxboxadmin.com )
This time we’ll talk about transferring files using OpenSSH. The most
common ways to transfer files between Unix hosts are: rcp, ftp, and
rsync.

rcp and its SSH version: scpThe command rcp works like cp, but it can copy files to and from
remote files. For example, if you want to copy a “test” file […]

An introduction to OpenSSH

(originally posted at www.linuxboxadmin.com )
Well, someone want me to write something about OpenSSH, so here it is.

Why SSH?A lot of Internet protocols are based on telnet, FTP, POP3, SMTP,
etc. That is, these protocols works like two man talking:
“Hello, this is John.”
“Hi, John, please provide your password.”
“My password is ’secret’.”
“OK, you have the right password, please […]

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