Installing Java on Fedora Core 3 using JDK 1.4.2

Excellent Howto for setting up Tomcat5 from jpackage.org on RedHat Fedora Core3. http://www.mksearch.mkdoc.org/howto/jpackage-sun-fc3/ But required JDK 1.4.2 to be used in place of 1.5 Downloaded http://mirrors.sunsite.dk/jpackage/1.6/generic/non-free/SRPMS/java-1.4.2-sun-1.4.2.07-1jpp.nosrc.rpm  rpm -Uvh java-1.4.2-sun-1.4.2.07-1jpp.nosrc.rpm Download the self extracting version j2dsk-1_4_2_07-linux-i586.bin from http://java.sun.com/products/archive/j2se/1.4.2_07/index.html Moved it into /usr/src/redhat/SOURCE cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS rpmbuild -ba java-1.4.2-sun.spec Just need to install java and java-devel cd /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i586 rpm -Uvh […]

Setting up sshd for Public Key Authentication

To create key only authentication the users public key needs to be put on the server in their home directory under .ssh/authorizated_keys. Create the users private key on their workstation: # ssh-keygen -t rsa Send the private key to the server: # cat .ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh newmachine “cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys” Make sure the authorized_keys file […]