Day: 18 July 2015

Flatten directory structure

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Recently I brought a mp3 player that wasn’t able to shuffle the track through all folders. That’s why I had to bring all tracks to the root directory of the player (flatten directory structure). I did it with the following command, that flattens the whole structure by searching all files in the structure and copying […]

Resolve problems with authorized_keys permissions

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Sometimes I had problems to connect to a server via public key authentication. In most cases I could solve them by setting up the right permissions for the file and path of the authorized_keys file. This can be done as shown below: $> chmod 700 $HOME/.ssh $> chmod 600 $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys $> chmod go-w $HOME $HOME/.ssh […]