November 22, 2016 – Dan Langille's Other Diary

Flashing an LSI SAS 9201-16i – correctly

Three weeks ago, I thought I had flashed my new LSI SAS 9201-16i. I had not. When I powered up the system via mfsBSD, I could see the device, but during the boot process, there was no splash screen. I now believe this should always be a signal that you have not correctly flashed the card. Finally, I went back to basics. I went back to something I did in photos. I used […]

Nov 22 2016

OSX was caching my ssh passphrases – easy fix

Leave a Comment / OSX, ssh / By Dan Langille / November 22, 2016

I have used ssh-agent for a long time. I enter my passphrase once, then let ssh-agent handle my ssh sessions. Last night, I noticed I ssh’d to a box and did not enter my passphrase. I got logged in. I had just rebooted my laptop so I was very concerned about this. It look at while, but eventually, I discovered the cause. OSX was caching the passphrase. More interestingly, it was not using

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