Category Archives: Tips & Tricks

Deep Clone From Super Class

Ever had to create an object from another object being super class of the first one? You could just copy each attribute from one to another but that’s pretty annoying if there’s a lot of attributes. I stumbled upon a generic way and like to share it.


Change Mac Address on MacBook Air/Pro (Spoofing)

I recently had an issue changing mac address on my MacBook Air. Here’s how to change mac address to a random one keeping first three digits (otherwise it won’t work). tl;dr: $ networksetup -getmacaddress en0 | awk ‘//{“openssl rand -hex 3” | getline mac; sub(“(:..){3}$”, mac, $3); print $3}’ | sed ‘s/://g; s/\(..\)/:\1/g; s/^://’ | […]




Connect to Server via SSH with Git

Given: an Ubuntu server with central Git repository and connection via SSH and an Ubuntu client with local Git repository. Deposit user’s SSH private key id_rsa in ~/.ssh (aka /home/user/.ssh) chmod 0600 ~/.ssh/id_rsa to prevent other users reading user’s private key If you also want to use Git with root user: cp /home/user/.ssh/id_rsa /root/.ssh/ Connect […]



Enable Root Access in WinSCP

To enable root access to some server do following steps on this server: # nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config Uncomment line permitRootLogin without-password and save file # service ssh restart Eventually set new password for root user: # passwd root


Connect to svn+ssh with TortoiseSVN

TortoiseSVN is supporting SSH authentication via Putty’s Pageant. Thus: Start Pageant Add key (.ppk file, e. g. generated from OpenSSH key) (Minimize Pageant) Start TortoiseSVN, e. g. Repo-browser Type in URL, e. g. svn+ssh://user@server/path/to/svn. Important: set user in URL (user@) Connection should work