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

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

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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Programmers from Le Havre: please contact me !

I am looking for programmers living in or near

Le Havre, France

.

I am eager to start a programming user group down here, with technical presentations, meetups, and hum, beers.



If you are interested, please contact me.

Twitter rant

twitter rant

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Bugzilla won’t let me look

Bad surprise this morning:

trying to look for all the open bugs of GMF is just not possible apparently.

If you try to work around the limitation by searching for a space ” “, it results into an error:

You may not search, or create saved searches, without any search terms.

The help links look broken: I created the bug 205151 for that.

As for the listing of all open bugs, any workaround or fix is welcome.

Testing svn2rss

So my latest cool app is asking Subversion the latest changes over the repository.

It pretty much does this:

svn log #{your_url} --limit #{when_you_d_like_to_stop}

Then, for every revision, it runs a diff:

svn diff #{rev1}:#{rev2}

After playing around for some time with all those commands, my advice is to run svn2rss with Subversion 1.4, as my tests were taking more than 2 minutes to complete.

no GPL libs for lift

There is an interesting discussion going on the lift mailing list.

The principal maintainer, David Pollak, doesn’t want to abide by the FSF and add GPL or LGPL code to his code base.

Well, I kinda agree.

In terms of freedom, having to redistribute your source code when using one of those libraries is actually reducing your freedom.

Maybe the ultimate DRM ?

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Tumbling on several tumblrs

I really love Tumblr, and I love filling up my watchlog,

but it gets a bit messy when you have two Tumblr accounts: you never really know on which you are logged, and it becomes painful quickly.

So.. any firefox brilliant extension for that ? Or just a better bookmarklet from the guys ?

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Java on Mac

Apparently, Java is going to require some work on Apple, as this post puts it. On top of that, Leopard won’t run Eclipse as is.

What I like is that both articles are optimistic and just want to get past it.

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Log in my console, please…

eclipse -consoleLog

How could I live without that before ?