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sshd: error: key_read: uudecode failed

I started seeing this error: Jun 10 19:12:38 nyi sshd[92208]: error: key_read: uudecode AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABJQAAAIBdX/USEtxnO91Vpujney8gwkq2sRrcU9R6nKAoGv1eNMWrMD9a93kZMjR4fFMAH87g+zyHBftxCsyE0wJX2A0UFgIQsiuOOINkTJMyk\n failed I couldn’t figure it out. Then I searched ~/.ssh/authorized_keys for that string. I found it in there. But the line was incomplete. It looked like I’d deleted the last part of the line. It should end with something like this: … onsnJNGeljjf9i8U3aorbSZj3jiEuTYMoTi9XK2dvGh5bbEQggw47jQg= dan@bigtimes.example.org Solution: I deleted that line. Then I copy/pasted the public key back into the file […]

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The Bacula Tutorial jail server

One of the challenges of providing hands-on demonstrations is giving everyone their own sandbox to play in. I don’t want people to spend time on installing software. I want people to learn about the software in question, specifically Bacula. With this in mind, I’ve been building up a solution based on FreeBSD 9.1, ZFS, and jails. My solution is pretty nifty, but I don’t think it’s anything special. The key is simplicity. The

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