Category Archives: Projects

Yubikey and server authentication

Posted on December 6, 2011 by welby

After starting to use the Yubikey for LastPass and various other online servers I’ve started also using my yubikey for SSH access to my server(s). I’ve touched on google_authenticator and pam_yubico for authentication in a previous post however I will … Continue reading →

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PAM and Two Factor authentication

Posted on November 14, 2011 by welby

As the need for Two factor authentication is a requirement for PCI-DSS (Payment Card Industry standard) and SSH Key with password is not always deemed to be an acceptable form of Two factor authorisation there is now a surge in … Continue reading →

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A quick (and quite unscientific!) break down of Rackspace CloudFiles UK vs Amazon S3 (Ireland)

Posted on January 16, 2011 by welby

(Disclaimer – I’m a Rackspace Employee, the postings on this site are my own, may be bias, and don’t necessarily represent Rackspace’s positions, strategies or opinions. These tests have been preformed independently from my employer by my self) As Rackspace … Continue reading →

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RouterBoard as a Home Router – 7 Months on – Part 1

Posted on May 25, 2009 by welby

At the new year I decided that I was fed up with having my main Unix server acting as a Router (amongst other things) and decided to bite the bullet and get a full blown router. Here in lay a … Continue reading →

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SKY on a HTPC

Posted on September 16, 2008 by welby

Recently I’ve become more and more annoyed with my SKY-HD’s disk spinning up and down, and then the power appearing to be cut to the drive, meaning that theres a rather loud click comes from it. Not a problem if … Continue reading →

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