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Questions tagged [remote-management]

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How does reverse SSH tunneling work?

As I understand this, firewalls (assuming default settings) deny all incoming traffic that has no prior corresponding outgoing traffic. Based on Reversing an ssh connection and SSH Tunneling Made Easy, reverse SSH tunneling can be used to get around…
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Why am I getting this message from xauth: "timeout in locking authority file /home//.Xauthority"?

While attempting to SSH into a host I received the following message from xauth: /usr/bin/xauth: timeout in locking authority file /home/sam/.Xauthority NOTE: I was trying to remote display an X11 GUI via an SSH connection so I needed xauth to be…
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Linux equivalent to PowerShell's "one-to-many" remoting

Coming from Windows administration, I want to dig deeper in Linux (Debian). One of my burning questions I could not answer searching the web (didn't find it) is: how can I achieve the so called "one-to-many" remoting like in PowerShell for…
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Linux Bulk/Remote Administration

Beside our internal IT infrastructure, we've got around 500 Linux machines hosting our services for the on-line world. They are grouped in a bunch of clusters like Database A-n, Product A-n, NFS, Backoffice and so on. Furthermore, they are…
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how do I wipe a server that I don't have physical access to?

I have a Godaddy dedicated server that I would like to cancel. Before I do that I'd like to do a clean format on the server to make sure that the next person who gets the server isn't able to undelete anything (I don't know how thorough Godaddy is…
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Route only ssh traffic through VPN

Is it possible to route a computer's SSH service through a VPN connection but allow ALL other data to exit through the WAN address? What sort of iptables magic needs to be done to accomplish this? SSH data → goes through VPN ALL other data → goes…
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perform remote sqlite command

If this should be moved to the DBA exchange, I apologize. Feels more like linux than DB to me, so here goes: I've got some machines that run scheduled cron jobs every night and email me the output. I do not want emails for things like this. In…
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TeamViewer, open source replacement? (Connection created from remote device)

Is there an open source alternative to TeamViewer? The issue is having the remote placed device initiate a connection so that the help desk can manage the device. I am looking to create a facility for remote management on devices we deploy which are…
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wayland and remote desktop

apparently Fedora 25, even if in alpha state (not for long, beta comins soon) is doing extremely well with Wayland enable by defaut. I wonder if there's any graphical/easy_to_setup solution out there for remote desktop management (under another…
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"supervisory" software for school rooms

In a schoolroom there are 15 machines + 1 the teacher's PC. All have ex.: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. Are there any softwares that can be used on the teachers machine that can "audit" the students 15 PC? Things needed: - teacher must see the students…
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How to setup linux server for headless use?

Consider a headless server like this: A typical x86 box at a remote location, which you can remotely initialize with a stock - say - Ubuntu image. After it is initialized you only can login via ssh - or remotely reset it, i.e. you can't access the…
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Write a remote managing script

I need to be able to locally run a script that will connect to various servers and run commands on them. What is the best way to accomplish this?
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How can I remotely access an intranet website from an external network via an SSH tunnel?

I recently setup FreeIPA on an internally accessible system at home. I'd like to manage this web UI from networks that are external to my LAN, but at the same time, I don't want to have to expose this web UI to the public internet. Is there a way I…
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Running continuous jobs remotely

I'm new to Linux, and I'm probably asking a fairly basic question. How do I run a continuous program on Linux? Basically, I have a program that will continuously check for content on a website. This program will be executing for several days. I do…
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Changing linux distro remotely while preserving data

I have a headless Fedora 15 (without GUI) box. With the following partition structure: $ df -T -h Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on rootfs rootfs 49G 2.8G 46G 6% / udev devtmpfs 1.7G 4.0K 1.7G 1%…
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