SSH Server And “Permission denied (publickey).”

This drove me up a wall, yet it’s so simple, and so easy to overlook.

If you ever setup a server with SSH public key authentication, and you get the following error:

Permission denied (publickey).

Make sure you do the following:

• Make sure the permissions of the .ssh folder are 0700
• Make sure the permissions of the authorized_keys file are 0600
• Make sure the user owns the .ssh folder and contents (normally that’s the case but just to make sure)

For example from the home folder of the user you are trying to setup, use these commands:

sudo chown -R username:username /home/username/.ssh
sudo chmod 0700 /home/username/.ssh
sudo chmod 0600 /home/username/.ssh/authorized_keys

Especially if you’re on Amazon EC2 which uses public key authentication by default, this is very important when setting up new users. And with modern Linux distros like Ubuntu this is very easy.

Happy secure terminalling!

2010 Winter Games Live Streaming Requires Silverlight

Just when I thought the internet was headed to good pasture, I check out what internet streaming is going on for the 2010 Olympic Winter games here in Vancouver. What shall I find? But low and behold.. And I mean low. They are streaming using Microsoft Silverlight.

Until now I have refused to install it, I’ll probably end up installing it just for this and uninstalling it right after. But hey, they are streaming in 720p HD which is not bad. And I believe it’s even using H.264 so not a Microsoft specific codec. But still, I just don’t like it! This is bad for the open web, and bad for the non-Microsoft web. I know very well what Microsoft’s plan was for the internet. Thanks for the likes of Mozilla, Google, and Apple their plans have been thwarted. I just hope it continues.

The family was telephoned and urged to leave

The destroyed Abu Askar family house was used to store Grad rockets. The family was telephoned and urged to leave before the house was shelled. – The Goldstoning of Israel.

I feel compelled to write this short post, hopefully to help spread the information for anyone who even thinks about believing the goldstone report. Those who wrote the report had made their decision before even beginning the inquiry.

It’s anti-Semitic, and intentionally sides with the terrorists.

Going back to the first sentence in the post, what other army in the world, let alone the small pocket of the world called the middle east, would call their target allowing them to escape, before launching the attack? Something Israel has done countless times in an mind boggling effort to save civilian lives.

“The Goldstone Report was born in bias and matured into a full-fledged miscarriage of justice.”

Who Else Thinks So?

• Goldstone Report is Deceitful
  IDF chief says army began investigating itself before “we heard of Goldstone.”
• The Case Against Goldstone Report: Study in Evidentiary Bias
  Read the full text of Alan Dershowitz’s highly detailed rebuttal of the Gaza war report.
• Deputy Chief of Staff: Goldstone Report a Trojan Horse
  The Goldstone report is a Trojan horse; it gives terrorist organizations
  legitimacy to fight us from urban populations.
• Livni: Probe will legitimize distorted war report
  The IDF is a moral army that avoids hurting civilians. The Goldstone Report is one-sided and supports the position of Hamas, who fired Qassams at Israel’s civilians.
• The Case Against the Goldstone Report
  The Goldstone Report is much more scurrilous than most of its detractors (and supporters) believe.

Those are just a few.