Tips And Tricks - Bytesized Hosting Wiki

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• ssh keys
• Pydio

SSH Keys

By having a generated private ssh key and uploading the paired public your $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys file you can easily log in to your box securely with no password or a pass phrase of your choosing.

There are many guides out there for this already.

For windows putty is a very good ssh client. Here are some guides to generate and use your public key, search google.

If you are using linux you should already [know how]http://letmegooglethat.com/?q=setup+ssh+key+pairs)

Pydio

Make a symbolic link to the personal file area to easily copy data in your home directory to Pydio. For example, by using this command:

<username>@omega:~> ln -s  $HOME/www/explorer/data/personal/<username> box

There is now a symbolic link named box you can copy any file quickly to which will show up in the Pydio.