.ssh config for Windows and Linux

October 18th, 2025 – 7:26 pm
Tagged as: Computing Notes

The ~/.ssh/config file works for OpenSSH on Windows and for SSH on Linux. To prevent disconnects, add the keepalive messages for all hosts. For specific hosts that use a specific key type, such as RSA on CentOS 6, add the specific algorithm via the HostkeyAlgorithms + functionality. To add a private key for SSH key [...]

Debian 12 PATH and X11

May 18th, 2024 – 4:46 am
Tagged as: Computing Notes

A few quirks with Debain 12 include that path not being set in similar fashion to Fedora, Ubuntu, and other distributions.  One must regularly set export PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin In Gnome, applications will open on the server instead of the client when using X11 forwarding.  This will occur even though xcalc opens on the client normally.  The [...]