Mr Mist’s Blog

I have been quite geeky lately. Messing around with the ovh server. My latest geekness has been to setup chrooted openssh. Ahh such joy. All so that web files can be uploaded with the correct usernames. Luckily the feature is a new one for openssh, but reasonably easy to achieve, and nowhere near as complex as it used to be. Nowadays all you have to do is tweak your sshd_config file, to include a line for the ChrootDirectory and line to say to use the internal sftp system. Of course for me that involved upgrading loads of bits and pieces, and then figuring out that the %u substitution actually seems to break the sftp - so don’t bother using that if you’re having trouble with it disconnecting your sftp sessions - but after some banging of head the thing works!

And that’s my geek for the day.

I am experimenting with google mail for some of my (lesser-used) domains. It is quite funky, you set up a few things and then you can have the google front-end for your domains’ email. (Which of course you can then download with pop or imap if you want, rather than using the web front end.). This could come in quite handy for moving stuff away from other providers, because it would mean that I only need to deal with web stuff for domains rather than web + email.

In other news, well, there’s not that much other news at the moment. Our side gate still has not been fitted. I am expecting them to do it next week, or I shall be unimpressed. I have some cheesecake in the fridge. I wonder if 9:23 is too early for cheesecake? mmm.

Who would have thought that watching the last episodes of Doctor Who and the last episodes of the House series on the same day would be such a draining experience. Damn those emotional series finales! Both were amazingly good programming. ooer.