Author Archives: cloudnthings

AWS Permissions are too open error when trying to connect to EC2

By | March 9, 2020
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If you are trying to connect to an EC2 instance in AWS and you get the following permission error saying that your key file is too open…. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @         WARNING: UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE!          @ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Permissions 0644 for ‘awskeypair.pem’ are too open. It is required that… Read More »

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Quick links to set up Ubuntu on Mac

By | January 27, 2020
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You’ll need to download Virtual Box: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads You’ll want to download the latest version of Ubuntu and most probably the desktop version: https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop Go through the install process. You’ll want to turn on Guest Addition in order to be able to copy and paste between the 2 OS’s You’ll want to set the Virtual Box display… Read More »

How to remove Last Login in MacOS bash terminal

By | January 25, 2020
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When you open terminal you’ll probably be greeted with: Last login: Sat Jan 25 07:54:26 on ttys001 /Users/sean> How to get rid of Last login or other Method Of The Day (MOTD) messages? It is a 2 second fix. Just type “touch .hushlogin”. Just the presence of this file will suffice.