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Two Factor authentication is rather hit and miss in terms of support from web apps.

After starting to use the Yubikey for LastPass and various other online servers I’ve started also using my yubikey for SSH access to my server(s).

As the need for Two factor authentication is a requirement for PCI-DSS (Payment Card Industry standard) and SSH Key with password is not always deemed to be an acceptable form of Two factor authorisation there is now a surge in different forms of two factor auth, all with their own pros and cons.

A common requirement for PCI-DSS is for all commands run by a user who has admin privileges to be logged.

Lets say that you’ve got multiple physical volumes (PV) in a Volume Group (VG) and you want to migrate the extents from one PV to another, this can be acomplished with a quick and easy pvmove command.

At home we use various VoIP providers to either get free calls to various places (GTalk/GVoice to america for instance) and various other destinations over SIP providers

(Disclaimer – I’m a Rackspace Employee, the postings on this site are my own, may be bias, and don’t necessarily represent Rackspace’s positions, strategies or opinions.

Here’s a copy of my iPhone to Android script.

A quick script to send notifications from IRSSI for privmessages and also for highlights, I’ll put more commentary on later, but for now.

At the new year I decided that I was fed up with having my main Unix server acting as a Router (amongst other things) and decided to bite the bullet and get a full blown router.