Anyway, I just got my dyndns.org address up and running and I figured that I'd need something to host on it, so, I went into my Sharing...um, what are they called now?...preferences pane (pain??) and clicked on "Allow remove login." Upon the clicking of said button, it dimmed itself, and upon reloading of the Sharing pane, the button was unchecked. I tried checking it about three times before I realized that something had to be wrong, REALLY wrong.

Having the stong urge to get this up and running, I quickly popped open the Terminal, su'ed and, for lack of any other idea, typed "sshd" and it return. A screenfull of errors spewed onto my screen, including such text as "permissions incorrect" and "no key files available, exiting." After a read through the sshd man files I discovered that sshd is VERY picky about file permissions and wants it's key files to be accessable ONLY by the superuser! "oh gee," I thought to myself, "how the hell does chmod work again?" Through trial and error, and reading the chmod man pages (twice!), I finally remembered exactly how to use it. Quickly, but carefully, I used chmod go-rwx and restored each key file back to it's superuser-only sshd-acceptable mode.

I'm so proud of myself, this is the frist time I've ever used the terminal to do anything important or useful. YAY!!!

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Originally posted by Tau Zero:
Heh. I rarely start Xwindows on my Linux box unless I want to look at pictures or web pages. If all I'm doing is dealing with text, I am usually just fine with 25x80 textmode.

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I cn't be bothered to actually get off my fat ass and fix the X-server on my firewall

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