16 May
2025
16 May
'25
9:19 p.m.
A great third party tunneling / VPN that seems to work well for me on
Ubuntu is SurfShark. I buy one license and it works on all my devices, like
my Android, my laptop running Ubuntu and my wife's iPhone. Great for if you
are on vacation and you want to be protected while using public Wi-Fi. And
you don't feel like burning up all your minutes from your mobile carrier.
There are some other interesting advantages as well like if you need to
convince a service that you are in some completely different zip code then
where you really are..
On May 16, 2025 1:16:59 PM Gary <saclug(a)garymcglinn.com> wrote:
I just spent about 4 hours setting up a pubkey ssh
authentication. The
problem was that my sshd was no longer accepting pubkeys generated on my
remote system using rsa or dsa. I finally tried an ecdsa and everything
worked.
Running ssh -v, -vv, and -vvv didn't really help because it just fails
silently. You have to figure out what a message offering the private key
as the public key is important and then make a guess that something bad
happened there because the authentication process continues. There are
other messages earlier in the chain that make is seem like it can't find files.
I spent a lot of time confirming file permissions. My books didn't agree
with a lot of what I found on line. Which is right? A lot of thrashing
around there.
Granted, I'm retired and doing all this for fun. Well sort of. I do like
to use a lot of this stuff and I find it helpful. But when something I,
"know how to do" and is suppose to make my life easier and simpler, takes a
lot of time, I need to reevaluate my approach.
Your average person just buys a 3rd party tunneling/VPN service and goes
from there. Which is great if you are running Windows.
I think it is time for me to consider my approach and how I am spending my
time and money. This just isn't sustainable.
I'm not saying things were better "back in the day." There was definitely
a time when it was hard to do a lot of things. We had "install fest" for
example. Documentation was nonexistant. Then, it seemed like for awhile,
things were pretty good. Things just worked and there was documentation
and you could get information.
I think there was a definite peak in usability. Or is it just me?
Maybe I'll start by figuring out a minimum set of functionality that I need
and take a fresh approach from there.
--
-Gary
It is a simple thing to make things complex,
a complex thing to make things simple.
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