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Running Xen on Various Linux Distributions

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I have been looking to various GNU/Linux distributions to determine their level of support for Xen.  Here’s what I found: Debian Etch – Xen Hypervisor 3.2.1 (via backports), Linux kernel 2.6.26 (via backports) Debian Lenny – Xen Hypervisor 3.2.1, Linux dom0 kernel 2.6.26 Debian Squeeze (testing) – Xen Hypervisor 3.4.2, Linux dom0 kernel ??? Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) …

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Setting up a user with only scp and sftp access

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In the olden days one had to use packages such as scponly and rssh in order to restrict a user account to just being able to use scp and sftp.  Now that functionality is built into OpenSSH.  A client wanted me to setup such an account for 1 user on a system.  I modified sshd_config …

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