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Login to a Linux server without using passwords
Date: 29 April 2007
Author: Tim Butler

For those familiar with using SSH to access remote servers, you will know how frustrating it can become remembering passwords across different systems.  It's especially annoying if you are accessing many servers at once or in the same day, and you have to remember passwords for each system.

Thankfully we can easily remove the need for passwords by using keys.

This guide uses Ubuntu 6.10 ...

Bash aliases
Date: 29 April 2007
Author: Tim Butler

If you're a heavy user of the Bash shell (standard on most modern Linux distributions), adding aliases for common commands can save you a lot of time. 

When you run the bash shell (eg, start the GNOME Terminal under Linux), it looks for some configuration files in your home directory.   One of these is ".Bashrc", which will be used in this ...