A few weeks ago I wrote a article on disabling the caps lock key in Windows. I decided since I have been writing some Linux articles I may as well show a way to do the same thing in Linux. Its a short, quick fix but it can be useful if you hate capslock like I do.
Below I outline the steps to disable the key:
I recently had to do a install of VMWare server with 4 guest operating systems and once I got it all going I found that the arrow keys were not working. On some hosts they were mapped to control or shift and on the other hosts they just did not work. After a little searching I found a simple solution. Below I outline how to fix this small issue.
When I first was working with an Amazon Web Services instance at EC2 I was getting frustrated trying to use SecureCRT to connect to the AWS instance. When you configure an instance you are required to configure an Amazon EC2 key pair which will allow you to connect to your instances via SSH. The problem is once you receive the key pair via download it will not work with SecureCRT so you need to convert it to a public key to work. I did a lot of searching and didn’t find much but the below worked for me.
When configuring SSH keys to be able to login to a server without a password you mighkeys2t run into a permissions error. If the authorized_keys or authorized_keys2 file has the incorrect permissions it will not authenticate with your ssh-rsa key but instead still require a password. If you are having trouble configuring SSH keys you should check the /var/log/secure file to see if there is an error displaying in that log. You may see the error displayed below.
Error: Authentication refused: bad ownership or modes for file .ssh/authorized_keys
If you see this error it means that the authorized_keys or authorized_keys2 file has the incorrect ownership or permissions. Make sure that the authorized_keys file is owned by the user that will be logged into and the permissions are 600. So if the username is backup you would want the file to look like the below when issuing the “ls -alh” command.
The easiest way to send encrypted email with Gmail that I have found is to do so with Firefox and the FireGPG plugin. You can either encrypt the message before typing it into Gmail or you can type the message and then highlight the text and run the FireGPG plugin to encrypt it. Below are a few simple steps that should help encrypt email you are sending through Gmail to someone who has a PGP key.
NOTE:The below steps are if the FireGPG buttons are not showing in Gmail and is a temporary fix until FireGPG is updated and the entire message can be encrypted. I will update this with a link to the new article/howto once FireGPG is updated.