Install & Configure OpenSSH

November 29, 2006 | By hanneng In Linux | Comments(0)

As I’m setting up a Linux CENT OS for an experimental project, I need to install and setup OpenSSH server into the Linux box, for secure and encrypted remote access instead of telnet and ftp.

To run an OpenSSH server, you must first make sure that you have the proper RPM packages installed. The openssh-server package is required and depends on the openssh package.

Firstly, I used yum to get the latest openssh packages.

# yum install openssh-server

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How To Configure yum To Get Through Proxy?

November 28, 2006 | By hanneng In Linux | Comments(1)

Yesterday, I was installing Linux Cent OS in Virtual Machine for an for an experimental project.

When using yum update to get all the latest packages, I realised that yum couldn’t successful updated. This is because office network is behid the squid proxy.

The steps to get yum operations to use a proxy server is really simple.

# The proxy server or IP address:port number
proxy=http://proxy.server.com:8080
# The proxy account for yum connections
proxy_username=userid
proxy_password=password

For more details, read Using yum with a Proxy Server

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