Suse & OpenSuse : Tips, Tricks, Tutorials, How Tos and Troubleshooting

How to setup and enable OpenSSH

April 7, 2009 – 6:09 am

OpenSSH is a FREE version of the SSH connectivity tools. For many users of telnet, rlogin, and ftp, they may not realize that most of the time their password is transmitted across the Internet unencrypted. With OpenSSH, it encrypts all traffic (including passwords) to effectively eliminate eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and other attacks. Besides that, [...]

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How to change font size for Yast and Sax2

April 6, 2009 – 6:22 am

Sometimes the font size for your newly installed SUSE is too small for your reading pleasure. There are several ways to configure the font size. One method is to use the configuration utility for your window manager.

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Manually Starting and Stopping Services in Suse/OpenSuse

February 28, 2009 – 4:50 am

YaST provides a extremely easy way for system administrators to manage which services run at boot. The YaST Runlevel Editor module is easy to understand and gives you important information about each service. You can choose to start or stop a process with nothing more than a mouse click.

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How to configure YaST firewall for BitTorrent

February 24, 2009 – 6:22 am

The most file sharing protocol is non other than the famous BitTorrent protocol. However sometimes you may be experiencing slow downloads when sharing P2P files when using BitTorrent client e.g. Utorrent. This is most likely to occur when your computer is behind a home router or software firewall. The OpenSuse firewall -YaST makes it [...]

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