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Data and Technology

Posted on July 16th, 2007

Written by cliff

Tags
blank screen, display, export, Java, Java Swing, mac, ssh, ssh forwarding, SSH X11 forwarding, sshd_config, ssh_config, Swing, tunnel, unix, X11, X11 forwarding

Blank Window When SSH Forwarding X11 Sessions

There are a number of applications running on our servers that have GUI’s that I need to display on the Mac in my office. While the traditional method of exporting the server-side display to my desktop works, it is inherently insecure because the entire session, including any passwords that may be sent are all transmitted [...]
Data and Technology

Posted on April 30th, 2007

Written by cliff

Tags
attacker, authentication, edit, incoming, linux, networks, PermitRootLogin, red hat, rhel, root, root logins, security, ssh, sshd, sshd_config

Disable SSH Root Logins on RHEL

For one reason or another RHEL does not disallow incoming ssh connections as root. This is, of course a glaring security problem which should be addressed for all systems that allow ssh connections to be made from any but the most restricted networks.
The best practice, of course, would be to make the initial ssh connection [...]