Articles tagged with Linux

1. Using ssh-agent with Visual Studio Code in WSL

   I recently started to use WSL for local development instead of a Linux virtual machine. Visual Studio Code has an extension to connect to running WSL instance so you can code in WSL while running VS Code in Windows.

   If you use Git via SSH (or you use SSH a lot), you might find handy using ssh-agent. Unlike on the full Linux desktop, I could not find a simple way …

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2. Setting up DKIM signing with Postfix on Debian Wheezy

   This is a log of my setup for OpenDKIM on Debian Wheezy. Some steps (like setting the proper access rights) might be omitted.

   1. Install OpenDKIM

   aptitude install opendkim opendkim-tools
   

   On some distros, content of openkim-tools is included in the first package.

   2. Generate domain key

   cd /etc/postfix
   opendkim-genkey -s mail -d mplicka.cz
   mv mail.private opendkim_mail.private
   mv mail.txt opendkim_mail.txt
   

   Publish the TXT record. Use …

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3. Reading output of remote command with Dropbear ssh client

   Today I faced strange behavior of Dropbear SSH client (dbclient) on my home OpenWRT home router. Before anything else, I would like to note that I do not have the recent version, but the version included in my OpenWRT installation. Exactly, it’s Dropbear v0.53.1. But most distributions do not have recent versions so I hope this will remain usefull to others.

   I have a shell script which …

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