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imported from wiki, 25 July 2006
Sometimes when setting up a machine to run services for not-very-well-trusted users (e.g. a web server), it may be advantageous to allow the users to copy files to the machine, but not to have any kind of shell access. Obviously, you can do this with FTP, but that’s old-hat and insecure. It would be better to have everyone scp the files over instead. Except… scp uses ssh, and so giving scp access also gives remote shell access to the users. Not what you really want in this situation.
It is possible, however, to set up a system where [continued…]
imported from wiki, 22 July 2006
This page documents installing Wifi-Radar on Debian (Etch) and Ubuntu (Hoary).Wifi-Radar is a simple utility for managing wireless networks. It’s very useful if you connect to more than one wireless network, each of which has different settings.
Although the .deb package used in this document is designed for Ubuntu, it has been shown to work on Debian Etch too.
Ensure you have the following packages installed: python, python-gtk2, wireless-tools. You probably have all of those packages installed already. They are installed as standard on Ubuntu and are likely to be installed on a Debian [continued…]
imported from wiki, 21 July 2006
This piece was originally put together for the BCS OSSG (British Computer Society, Open Source Specialist Group) website on the 15th March 2005. Some of the info may be a bit old by now (21st July 2006), but I decided it would be handy to post it on the HantsLUG Wiki too.
A good number of people who were at the OOSG meeting yesterday (14th March 2005 for those reading this sometime after posting) will no doubt have discussed this in the break. It got me thinking a bit since the IBM ViaVoice has been [continued…]
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