How To Enable SSH Login From OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 to macOS Ventura 13.3.1

Author: , May 19th, 2023

I was unable to login from my old iMac running Yosemite to my new iMac running Ventura using RSA keys. It turns out that RSA key support was disabled in Ventura. To correct the problem, I added the following two lines to the bottom of BOTH /etc/ssh/ssh_config and /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the Ventura side:

Be […]

How To Fix SSH Permission Denied From macOS Ventura To Amazon Linux

Author: , May 9th, 2023

I have been using RSA SSH keys forever to login to my various AWS EC2 instances. With macOS Ventura 13.3.1 ssh failed with the “Permission Denied” error. Using ssh -vvv, I saw that the RSA key was now being rejected. After much research, I decided to implement new keys on the client (Ventura) side using […]

How To Solve MySQL GPG Key Errors During yum update

Author: , February 19th, 2022

I went to perform a yum update and got the following error:

SOLUTION: Import the needed new key and manually edit the config files before retrying the yum update.

I had to edit two files: mysql-community-source.repo and mysql-community.repo

For 5.7 – add -2022 to the key name: i.e.: ORIGINAL:

MODIFY ONE […]

How To Prevent SSH From Prompting When The Host Is Unknown

Author: , January 26th, 2022

If you are asked “Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)?” when trying to connect via SSH, then the remote host’s identification key has not yet been stored in your ~/.ssh/known_hosts file. This then requires you to type the full string “yes” in order to proceed because the default value for ssh is […]

How To Convert An RSA Private Key to PEM Format

Author: , January 10th, 2020

How To Dual-Sort Query Results In WordPress Using get_posts

Author: , September 12th, 2019

Needed to build a feature for a Bookstore tool to have an optional sequence number for the Custom Post Type “books” that would allow items with a seq number to float to the top of the list and be sorted by seq #. The rest of the books would show underneath, sorted alphabetically.

How To Fix YUM Update Errors with Percona GPG Keys

Author: , April 16th, 2019

Problem: Trying to run a yum -y update as root aborts with the following error:

The solution, found on the Percona website, is this: sudo yum update percona-release Source URL: https://www.percona.com/blog/2019/02/05/new-percona-package-signing-key-requires-update-on-rhel-and-centos/

How To Obtain a Public Key from an AWS .pem Private Key on Linux and Mac

Author: , February 4th, 2019

Use the ssh-keygen command on a computer to which you’ve downloaded your private key .pem file; for example: First, ensure permissions will allow ssh-keygen to work: chmod 600 /path/to/the/file/your-key-pair.pem Then generate an RSA public key: ssh-keygen -y -f /path/to/the/file/your-key-pair.pem > your-key-pair.pub

How To Fix Excel for Mac Arrow Keys Do Not Move Cell Cursor

Author: , April 5th, 2017

As per MS Support page: “My arrow keys don’t move from cell to cell” Press SHIFT+F14 to toggle the Scroll Lock to the off position. Applies To: Excel for Mac 2011 Cause: Scroll Lock is turned on and causing the arrow keys to scroll the workbook area. Solution: Turn off Scroll Lock. Typically, when a […]

How To Fix “No Public Key Available” Errors for apt-get update on Debian

Author: , June 29th, 2016

root@myHost # apt-get update Hit http://cloudfront.debian.net wheezy Release.gpg Hit http://cloudfront.debian.net wheezy-updates Release.gpg Hit http://cloudfront.debian.net wheezy-backports Release.gpg Hit http://cloudfront.debian.net wheezy Release Hit http://cloudfront.debian.net wheezy-updates Release Hit http://cloudfront.debian.net wheezy-backports Release Hit http://cloudfront.debian.net wheezy/main Sources Hit http://cloudfront.debian.net wheezy/main amd64 Packages Hit http://cloudfront.debian.net wheezy/main Translation-en Hit http://cloudfront.debian.net wheezy-updates/main Sources Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates Release.gpg Get:1 http://cloudfront.debian.net wheezy-updates/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex [2,488 […]