Introduction As part of my travels and working with a large number of distributed linux systems we often need a better way to handle AAA(authentication, authorization and accounting), this wont help with 'accounting' but having a centralised machanisim to handle user sudo rights without requiring a 'phone home' …

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Sometimes I need to move files from a server on which I have SSH access but these files are big and or have complex formatting which breaks if you just try and copy\paste the contents So, if we gzip the file then base64 encode this compressed file we now have a string thats much smaller than the original and it's in a …

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Using Ubuntu 18 and tools like glances and iftop would often mangle the output Changing the default Puttty settings 'Connection > Data > 'Terminal-type string' to 'putty' instead of 'xterm' and setting your PuTTY settings under Translation and ensure that you have UTF-8 set as the character set then save this as …

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This command will tar an entire folder, pass it to gzip then pass it to SSH which then in turn writes the resultant output to a file on a remote server Useful for backing up small folders to remote servers Don't forget to ssh-copy-id on the source server so password-less authentications works 1tar -cvf - …

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Original Article - http://christiank.org/wp/2010/12/pipe-a-gzipped-mysql-dump-over-ssh/ If you want to take a SQL dump from some host, compress it and send it across SSH to another host then this is the command you are chasing mysqldump -u MYSQL_USERNAME -p YOUR_DATABASE | gzip -c | ssh USERNAME@YOUR_TO_HOST 'cat > …

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