As the year is coming to a close, many things need to get done and done quickly. This of course takes time away from side projects, such as this blog and my new site. In any case, I have discussed many a thing with a few people who want to help and get things rolling. But, at this time, I have decided to take a break so that I can really concentrate on getting things finished up before the new year, especially for work.

My wife is ready to burst at any minute, she’s already dilated. The baby could now come any day now. I would say most of the absolute necessities are done to bring the baby home. I myself am very excited to bring home our latest addition, so until then, I will wait impatiently and try to do the most that I can to make things smooth for her. It’s been a rough and difficult ride, but she’s weathered the whole storm pretty well…more than she gives herself credit for.

The new year will bring forth many new things to the world, especially to my world. A new daughter, a new company, a new project…in many ways, a new lease on life. So I’ll take this opportunity to tell the world that I am looking forward to 2008. This will be the year of changes, new frontiers, great achievements and victories. It’s been a tough year and the end is thankfully near. I’ll be making it worth the wait.

Happy gaming, happy holidays and happy new year!

Thanks — Firedorn

I was FINALLY able to set up a jailed SFTP server. This basically has circumvented one of OpenSSH’s drawbacks as a secure protocol. Normally, a user accessing the server via SFTP can have full read-only access to the entire server. Needless to say, this can be a security risk (a major one at that). What this patch does is restricts a “sftp” user to its home directory and restricts access to SFTP only (i.e. no interactive SSH sessions).

Thanks to Mads Madsen and Minstrel for helping me set up a chroot-ed SFTP server running on Ubuntu 7.10
Check out the Ubuntu guide HERE

Minstrel’s original guide can be found HERE. This might be useful for anyone else running other flavors on *nix.