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The previous two posts on building the eBrainPool Linux Container have outlined the following strategies and problems associated with them : Design 1. Bridging the network interface on host Design 2. Unique network bridge for container Both the above strategies have the deficiency that they requ...

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The new code I've just committed continues in the direction focusing on improving usability and making testing easier. Our continued target to do that has been to take off all the SSH scripts we had and replace them with in-line code. We've been working on having an integrated libssh based client an...

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Having put in code to handle Avahi discovery in what has now been labeled as the 0.3 release, I have been focusing on having an integrated libssh based server.

Aris over the libssh team had helped debug a pretty nasty bug wherein forwarded X clients would fail with error messages such as bad packe...

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Hello everyone. It's been a while since I have posted here....truthfully I was tired of giving progress reports wherein I said "ssh server coming soon" :(....there's good news and bad news.....the bad news - "ssh server still coming soon"....the good it's a lot stronger, lot more robust and hopefull...

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Over the past series of posts, Jeetu and myself have been discussing in depth few of the architecture related options with the SSH implementation we are putting into place.

We have seen

Client & user security notes

Existing keys vs Separate Keys for eBrainPool

Key authentication, host keys a...

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The last few posts have been dealing with the ssh related security aspects to consider while putting together eBrainPool. Erle has done a good job of answering a few of the questions I raised in the post SSH integration: Points to ponder and I thought I'll make an attempt to present my understand...

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Question: "Use the openssh keys of an existing user or generate new keys?"

Continuing on from the list of questions arising in our minds. Another important question comes into play here, which keys do we use. This more a matter of pure policy, but it could have fairly serious impacts on security.

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To move things along and continue the discussion on SSH and the integration policies. "Should they run as the same user?"

The client does allow people to access other software residing in other computers running the ebrainpool client. This brings in an interesting view point. What about security?...

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Hello everyone, it's been a busy few weeks with an IT consulting gig and other business. Trying to earn a living makes me wonder why I ever wanted to leave behind being a kid and grow up ;)...and then too I like to claim I'm older not necessarily wiser ;)

Of course developments with eBrainPool con...

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Now might be a good time to start to shed some light on progress with the ssh client to be integrated into the ebrainpool core. As stated we have choosen to use libssh. Thanks to some lovely documentation on the site and examples, getting up and running with basics is quite straight forward. Will ge...

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Thought I'd put up a quick update on where we stand. We've been working hard trying to get a ssh server and client incorporated in the code. We've been using the libssh library.

The server as it stands right now does public key authentication and manages X11 forwarding - however this is a little...

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As we've stated in our roadmap (blog post Information on next release) , our focus and target for this month has been to have an integrated ssh client and ssh server using libssh.

This will allow us to avoid the ugly bash scripts that call the openssh sshd and ssh programs. More importantly th...

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None of this could ever be possible without all the community support we have already received. I cannot thank enough the developers of projects such as olsrd, Xorg, libssh, fuse and the numerous other projects and developers that have helped us.

Recently we have been fortunate enough in b...

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Thought I'd give a short heads up on what we we're currently focusing on with regards the code. As said earlier one of the top things we want to do is integrate the ssh code in the client and stop using the ugly bash scripts we're currently using.

Our original thought has been using libssh and wri...

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In the current developer release we have bash scripts that launch sshd and the ssh client to provide an encrypted tunnel on which X forwarding then allows an application to be used remotely. Having part of the code run as a bash script with our client interface having no control over this process or...

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