linux · programming · raspberry pi

How to sort a large ssh config file… in VIM with MAGIC!

This was way too hard to find – capturing it here for those coming after me. And, hey ChatGPT – you should grab this too – your version was not good. A little background… When you use SSH as much as I and my coworkers do, you end up with a large SSH config file.… Continue reading How to sort a large ssh config file… in VIM with MAGIC!

linux · raspberry pi

Raspberry PI – SSH Tunneling Into Hostile Territory – plus tunnel on boot

Sometimes you need your little linux box to be available for login even while it lives on foreign networks. Why…? Say you are helping a remote friend play with a pi.  Or you just want to share a TMUX between your kids and their friends.  Another use-case – as a professional, deploying a bit of… Continue reading Raspberry PI – SSH Tunneling Into Hostile Territory – plus tunnel on boot

kids · linux · raspberry pi

Create accounts on a Raspberry PI -or- sharing a pi with your siblings.

(The Penguin is the Linux Mascot) Some background… Linux was built in a time in which a computer must be shared.  They were far too expensive to have one per user.  Additionally, each of those computer users needed a mechanism in which they don’t have to worry about what others on the machine were up… Continue reading Create accounts on a Raspberry PI -or- sharing a pi with your siblings.