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Trying OpenSSH in Debian Etch ... plus thoughts on security, sudo and nano vs. vi

Posted by Steven_Rosenber on · 1 comment
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I did a Debian Etch install on one of my test machine drives recently, and today I added the openssh-server package so I could play around with PuTTY and Xming. Once I installed openssh-server (I used Synaptic, in case you were wondering), using PuTTY to start the connection, I was asked whether or not I expected the encryption key to change (I was, since this is the Debian install, not OpenBSD, which I've been using until now).

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Quoting:$ nautilus &

... I get a huge window with the entire GNOME desktop, minus the toolbars. And I can't close that window -- Xming won't let me, I think.


That's expected. Nautilus isn't just the file browser. It's the desktop as well. Try `nautilus --no-desktop --browser` instead. It's all in the man page.

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