[ubuntu-uk] Remote support for family & friends

[Byte Soup]

Heres an interesting update to this. I was testing on a machine at home
before I configure ddclient at my the location I want it to run. I wondered
about if it would renew the IP address mapping when a new WAN ip was
configured;

When you configure ddclient it always seems to setup a config file like so:

pid=/var/run/ddclient.pid
protocol=dyndns2
use=if, if=eth0
server=members.dyndns.org
login=<username>
password='<password>'
<myhostname>.dyndns.org

It wasnt updating the WAN ip when I power cycled the router. I wasnt sure if
it would or not. Anyway a quick google yielded the following change

pid=/var/run/ddclient.pid
protocol=dyndns2
use=web, web=checkip.dyndns.org, web-skip='Current IP Address: '
server=members.dyndns.org
login=<username>
password='<password>'
<myhostname>.dyndns.org

Then when ddclient re-checks, it shows the following, when you check for the
process, its configured to run as a daemon.

$ ps -ef | grep ddclient
root      1717     1  0 09:46 pts/1    00:00:00 ddclient - connecting to
checkip.dyndns.org port 80

$ ps -ef | grep ddclientroot      1717     1  0 09:46 pts/1    00:00:00
ddclient - reading from members.dyndns.org port 80

$ ps -ef | grep ddclientroot      1717     1  0 09:46 pts/1    00:00:00
ddclient - sleeping for 300 seconds

My /var/log/daemon.log shows

Mar 29 09:51:07 Bart ddclient[1717]: SUCCESS:  updating <myhostname>.
dyndns.org: good: IP address set to 1.2.3.4

What settings do you folks use in your /etc/ddclient.conf files? Do you run
the client as a daemon?

On 25 March 2011 12:55, Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> wrote:

> On 25 March 2011 12:47, Byte Soup <bytesoup at gmail.com> wrote:
> > It seems if you add a new ssh key into seahorse it always generates a
> file
> > called "id_rsa.pub" and "id_rsa", renaming old ones to .1 etc, is that
> > correct?
>
> No idea. I don't use Seahorse.
>
> > When you generate your keys is it always done as the user you are logged
> in
> > as? For example my user name on my machine might be "curtis" but I may
> want
> > to create a username login on my friends machine as "support" is that
> > possible and still able to generate a key?
> >
>
> I generate my key as me, my user ID, they are stored in .ssh in my
> home directory.
>
> If I want to logon to a remote machine which has a different user ID
> then I put my public key in that users folder on the remote machine.
> E.g. in /home/support/.ssh/authorized_keys - on the _remote_ machine.
>
> I can then do:-
>
> ssh support at remotehost.example.com
>
> or
>
> vncviewer -via support at remotehost.example.com localhost
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
>
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