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2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
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Read the SSH man pages every so often, even if you think you know how to use it. There's a lot of features in there. Don't miss the "AUTHORIZED_KEYS FILE FORMAT" in sshd's man page for the uber-cool "command='command'" options for authorized keys (restricts a given key to just be able to run a certain command, very useful). See also SSH's port forwarding, -D, learn how to use ssh-agent, and "man ssh_config".
There's a whole bunch of other characters you can call prefixed with the Tilde (~) as well. My favorite is often ~^Z (That's tilde+Control-Z), which puts the SSH session in the background and drops you back to the host machine. You can hit ~? for a list. One other very, very useful one is ~#, which lists all forwarded connections - if you've setup X11 Forwarding or any port forwarding it lists the details for you. Of course - if…
Why two identical stories in one day? What is different from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11117376 ?
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
HN stats
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 334
- Total comments
- 142
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-04-27 | How to kill an unresponsive ssh sessionFirst breakout | ique | 122 | 32 |
| 2013-07-26 | How to kill an unresponsive SSH sessionBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | oarmstrong | 209 | 109 |
| 2016-02-17 | How to kill an unresponsive SSH session | andrelaszlo | 2 | 0 |
| 2016-02-18 | How to kill an unresponsive SSH session | andrelaszlo | 1 | 1 |