Mehmet Ahsen mehmetahsen

SSH agent forwarding and screen

When connecting to a remote server via SSH it is often convenient to use SSH agent forwarding so that you don't need a separate keypair on that server for connecting to further servers.

This is enabled by adding the

ForwardAgent yes

option to any of your Host entries in ~/.ssh/config (or alternatively with the -A option). Don't set this option in a wildcard Host * section since any user on the remote server that can bypass file permissions can now als use keys loaded in your SSH agent. So only use this with hosts you trust.

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

Discussion on reddit.

Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

	#!/bin/sh

	# update repositories
	apt-get update

	# download the necessary prerequisite components for mineos
	apt-get -y install screen python-pip rdiff-backup git openjdk-7-jre-headless
	pip2 install cherrypy==3.2.3

	# download the most recent mineos web-ui files from github