Setting up User Accounts, Password Authentication, and SSH Keys on a New EC2 Instance

Based on an article from: http://blog.taggesell.de/index.php?/archives/73-Managing-Amazon-EC2-SSH-login-and-protecting-your-instances.html After you have created your instance: Save the Public DNS, it looks something like ec2-########-compute.amazonaws.com After you have your keypair, run this command $ ssh -i mykeypair.pem ubuntu@ec2-##########.compute-1.amazonaws.com You should be in now. Cool. Now set yourself up your own user account. adduser jkeesh Adduser is the one you … Continue reading Setting up User Accounts, Password Authentication, and SSH Keys on a New EC2 Instance

Wow, Facebook Hackers

So I saw a post on my wall from a friend, but something just didn’t sound right. Again, it was a case of the Facebook spam that somehow tricked you into posting something you didn’t want to post to all of your friends. And many people made the mistake, and it spread fast. Mainly, it … Continue reading Wow, Facebook Hackers