On occasion I access (Ubuntu) Linux servers from Windows using Putty and WinSCP. In order to preserve UTF-8 filenames, some snakeoil is required. (more…)
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Preserving UTF-8 filenames from Windows to Linux
Thursday, May 1st, 2008Setting up SCP/SFTP chroot access to Ubuntu/x64 server
Monday, February 4th, 2008scponly provides a mechanism to enable secure file-access to a server, with marked improvement over FTP.
scponly can be setup in a) normal mode, whereby the user can see the whole of the file-system of the server, or b) in chroot’ed mode, whereby the user only sees the files the server administrator has granted access to. The latter is what I wanted, but there are a few extra steps required for 64-bit kernel servers. (more…)
Feisty (2.6.20-16-generic kernel) boot failure
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007In applying the latest Feisty Fawn updates to one of my laptops I ran into a problem with the bootup hanging shortly after starting. The usual snakeoil of ‘acpi=off pci=noacpi’ appended to the boot command line failed to make any difference.