GNUnify is one of the biggest FOSS Event organized by the students of Symbiosis Institute Of Computer Studies & Research (SICSR) Pune & Pune GNU/Linux Users Group. GNUnify is entering in its 8th year with GNUnify 2010.

When: 19th & 20th Feb 2010

Where:  Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research, Atur Centre, Gokhale Cross Road, Model Colony, Pune-411016, Maharashtra, INDIA. Tel : +91-20-25675601

Event Website : http://gnunify.in

GNUnify Gallery: http://gnunify.in/gallery

LFU Update : Story in Linux for You March 2009 (pg 36)

Hope to see a great Event ahead

Using remote shells is all time favourite but remembering those many passwords is a pain so here are the steps to login using SSH without putting a password :)

1. Create a public ssh key, if you haven’t one already. Look at ~/.ssh. If you see a file named id_dsa.pub then you obviously already have a public key. If not, simply create one.

ssh-keygen -t dsa should do the trick. Please note that there are other types of keys, e.g. RSA instead of DSA.

2. Make sure your .ssh dir is not publically writable

    # chmod 700 ~/.ssh

Drupal is one of the most flexible Content Management System available and Its been more than 18 months since i am using it and have tried and tested lot many  modules, in this post i try to categorize non core drupal 6 modules on the basis of my experience in must have and enhance your site categories. i am sure this list would change with time

Modules you cant live without

Apache is the most common web server used now a days, you would have already configured apache many times by now but what about configuring it with SSL i.e. using apache to service on the https protocol, i assume you have already configured the basic apache server and have also enabled the SSL module, if not refer to my previous post on Configuring Apache Web server.

The following post is an extremely simplified step by step guide to configure SSL in apache using Self Signed Certificates you can also use a real certificate issued by a CA if you have it

Prerequisites

1) Apache with SSL module enabled
2) openssl installed

Step 1) Generate a Private Key

We will use the openssl toolkit for generating a RSA Private Key and Certificate Signing Request, as the first step generate the key the command below will create a 1024bit key using 3des