Archive for December, 2007

Configuring a diskless Ubuntu

3 Comments Published by Felipe Alfaro Solana December 9th, 2007 in DHCP, NFS, PXE, TFTP, Ubuntu

This post is not about doing a PXE-based network installation of Ubuntu. There are already many posts describing how to do this. This post is about setting up an Ubuntu workstation in diskless mode, such as the workstation boots via PXE and the root filesystem is mounted over NFS.
The process consists on the following main [...]

Kerberizing Leopard’s Remote Login (built-in SSH) service

1 Comment Published by Felipe Alfaro Solana December 7th, 2007 in Kerberos, Mac OS X, Security

0. Introduction
Enabling Kerberos/GSSAPI support in Leopard’s Remote Login (SSH) service is straightforward. As Leopard’s Remote Login is built using OpenSSH, most of what is described here applies perfectly to other flavors of UNIX.
Kerberos/GSSAPI authentication allows for Single Sign-On capabilities in OpenSSH in such a way that it makes very convenient to work with or manage [...]