Can’t ssh your box ? Stop messing with /etc/shadow!

January 23, 2009 — Antoine Toulme

I had the weirdest error ever. I could connect with a public key to my remote user. The key was showing as accepted. Yet the connection was closed on startup.


debug1: Server accepts key: pkalg ssh-rsa blen 256
debug2: input_userauth_pk_ok: fp ***
debug1: read PEM private key done: type RSA
Connection closed by 128.128.128.128

The solution was to look in /etc/shadow. There was a typo in the file.

Note that I didn’t find a trace of the problem in the syslog, messages, dmesg, etc.

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Prism and Minefield

January 23, 2009 — Antoine Toulme

I used Minefield for a few months and somehow it managed to keep the RAM busy at all times. I switched to Prism, and things got back into control. Not sure what the difference between the product is, I’m just happy I stopped participating to global warming that much.

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How to add custom navigation links on the wiki.eclipse.org left bar

January 23, 2009 — Antoine Toulme

This proved to be well hidden ; you can add your own links to the left bar of the wiki.eclipse.org website by adding them individually to the project metadata.

leftnavbar-project-metadata

  1. Log into portal.eclipse.org with your committer credentials
  2. Go to your project, and click on “Maintain project meta-data”
  3. Click to edit the “project left nav” property
  4. Now you can enter your link information:
  5. Just save it, and do it as often as needed.
  6. Go to your wiki page and edit it
  7. Add this to the page: {{#eclipseproject:your.project.id}}
    I prefer using a template for this though.
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