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Commands tagged secure

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pwsafe -qa "gpg keys"."$(finger `whoami` | grep Name | awk '{ print $4" "$5 }')"

2009-05-07 14:49:56

User: denzuko

Tags: GPG Linux key Encryption secure password management pwsafe single

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Safely store your gpg key passphrase.

From time to time one forgets either thier gpg key or other passphrases. This can be very problematic in most cases. But luckily there's this script. Its based off of pwsafe which is a unix commandline program that manages encrypted password databases. For more info on pwsafe visit, http://nsd.dyndns.org/pwsafe/.

What this script does is it will help you store all your passphrases for later on and allow you to copy it to your clipboard so you can just paste it in, all with one password. Pretty neat no?

You can find future releases of this and many more scripts at The Teachings of Master Denzuko - denzuko.wordpress.com.

vim -x <FILENAME>

2009-05-05 23:24:17

User: denzuko

Functions: vim

Tags: vim edit Encryption files secure password protect

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Add Password Protection to a file your editing in vim.

While I love gpg and truecrypt there's some times when you just want to edit a file and not worry about keys or having to deal needing extra software on hand. Thus, you can use vim's encrypted file format.

For more info on vim's encrypted files visit: http://www.vim.org/htmldoc/editing.html#encryption

rsync -avz -e 'ssh -A sshproxy ssh' srcdir remhost:dest/path/

2009-03-25 21:29:07

User: totoro

Functions: rsync

Tags: copy directory files rsynch remote secure

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Remote copy directories and files through an SSH tunnel host

If you have lots of remote hosts sitting "behind" an ssh proxy host, then there is a special-case use of "rsynch" that allows one to easily copy directories and files across the ssh proxy host, without having to do two explicit copies: the '-e' option allows for a replacement "rsh" command. We use this option to specify an "ssh" tunnel command, with the '-A' option that causes authentication agent requests to be forwarded back to the local host. If you have ssh set up correctly, the above command can be done without any passwords being entered.

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