Force SSH client to use password authentication instead of public key

This is an extract from the linked article. It shows an approach on how to implement encrypted passwords with the AWS Key Management Service (KMS).

For most applications it's enough to use a hashed...

1. Get "PuTTY Link" and "Pageant" (an SSH key agent) from the PuTTY download page.
2. Run pageant.exe, find its icon inside your system tray and add your SSH key.
3. Open up a `c...

You are getting when connecting via SSH or deploying with Capistrano (which uses SSH):

Too many authentication failures for username

This is caused by having too many SSH keys added to your keyring or ssh-agent. Your ssh-agent will throw all...

If you want to know your public key's fingerprint, do this:

ssh-keygen -lf ~/.ssh/my.key.pub

This may be necessary to authenticate your key on GitHub because of [recent events](https://github.com/blog/1068-public-key-security-vulnerability-a...

When deploying code with Capistrano (depending on your configuration) at some point Capistrano tries to check out code from your repository. In order to do so, Capistrano connects to your repository server from the application server you're deploy...

Within Capybara you most certainly use the #check- and #uncheck-method to (un)check checkboxes.
But there's one problem, if you want to test a custom styled checkbox, which hides its <input>-Tag:

• *The methods cannot (un)check checkboxes w...

The tree command will show you the contents of a directory and all its sub directories as a tree:

>tree
.
├── a
│   ├── file_1.txt
│   └── file_2.txt
└── b
    ├── c
    │   └── even_more.txt
    └── more.txt

3 directories, 4 files

If...

When installing a gem you can use version comparators like >= or ~>. That way it is possible to fetch the latest version of Bundler 1 with this command:

gem install bundler -v '~>1'

[How to install bundler for Ruby < 2.3](/makandra/...

Browsers usually cache favicons. If you update the favicon of your web site and want all visitors to see the new icon, you need to give the icon a different URL. You will not have this issue if you [cache your assets properly](https://makandracard...

paper_trail is an excellent gem to track record versions and changes.

You almost never want to reimplement something like it yourself. If you need to log some extra information, you can add them on top.

It comes with a really good README file...