Using client certificate authentication w/ BC ProxySG

Posted on by David Vassallo

Had to deal with an interesting case lately. This is what the customer wanted: as you can see, the link between the client and the ProxySG is to be negotiated using HTTPS, while the link between the ProxySG and the OCS is to be plain old HTTP. This is easily handled by the ProxySG when … Continue reading Using client certificate authentication w/ BC ProxySG

Nugget post: Lessons learned in SSH password-less login

Posted on by David Vassallo

There are plenty of guides on how to setup SSH login to a remote host without having to provide a password. The one I followed was: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/ssh-password-less-login-with-dsa-publickey-authentication/ It essentially is just creating a pair of files on your local machine: your private key and your public key. The public key must be sent to the … Continue reading Nugget post: Lessons learned in SSH password-less login