I have searched the forum and beyond but have not found an answer to my problem, So....
I have installed kodi on top of Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS which is all running on an Intel NUC.
I have installed a split tunnel system where all traffic goes through the usual internet connection with the exception of user2 who's traffic goes through the VPN I have set up. I have tested this by running
$ curl ipinfo.io
and
$ sudo -u user2 -i -- curl ipinfo.io
The first command shows my ISP's IP address and the second command shows my VPN's IP address as expected.
I have done this to allow me to run kodi under user2 while being logged into Ubuntu under user1. This allows me to SSH into my Ubuntu system under user1 which would not be possible if everything went through the VPN.
From the log in screen I can run kodi or Ubuntu for a number of users that I have set up. However I want to log into Ubuntu as user1 and then within the Ubuntu session run kodi under user2. So I thought I could do the following:
Log into Ubuntu as user1, open a terminal and run
$ su - user2
Then run kodi by typing
$ sudo kodi
I have to type 'sudo kodi' instead of 'kodi' otherwise kodi does not run and gives a GUI error. However, when doing this the kodi user is user2 (user setup for VPN) but running the speed test app for kodi shows that the connection is not running through the VPN as expected. I know kodi is through user2 as the add-ons I have installed are the ones for kodi under user2.
So, why is kodi using the user2 settings but not using the VPN? Is this to do with me running 'sudo kodi' in the terminal or could it be something else?
Come to think of it, is what I'm trying to do even possible?
Any help much appreciated.
Install kodi-standalone and run it with systemd then apply vpn split iptable rules for kodi user.
https://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:HOW-TO:Autostart_Kodi_for_Linux
OK, well, I finally found a solution thanks to help from the kodi forum. In the end the solution is very simple. I can log into Ubuntu as user1 as usual. Then I simply switch users to user2 and then run kodi under user2.
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I am attempting to set up a VM using VirtualBox. I am hosting on Windows 10 and want to set up a CentOS vm. I have a VM running but have had problems getting network connectivity with it. I have no experience with VirtualBox and it has been a long time since I worked on Linux. Any ideas on what I need to do to correct this? Are there some steps I need to take during the creation of the image?
Image is : CentOS-7-x86_64-Everything-1708.iso
VirtualBox : Version 5.1.28 r117968 (Qt5.6.2)
When I try to ping anything I get " connection the Network is unreachable
The very best thing you should do is running the following command:
ifconfig -a
Then, If you have an interface listed (not just 'lo'), you can do that:
# cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/
# sed -i -e 's#^ONBOOT="no#ONBOOT="yes#' ifcfg-{{network_device}}
replace {{network_device}} for your default network_device (from ifconfig-a command).
Then restart and it should connect.
When veewee is displaying the following message, Waiting for ssh login on 127.0.0.1 with user veewee to sshd on port => 7222 to work, timeout=10000 sec what exactly is it waiting on?
As far as I can tell there is a ssh server on port 7222 on the host that veewee has put up and it's waiting on that. This means that something in the guest is going to connect back to it. However, I can't figure out what that thing might be - and thus I can't debug further.
Further details
I'm trying to build a virtualbox image for vagrant with the CentOS-6.3-x86_64-minimal template. My steps:
bundle exec veewee vbox define 'ejs-centos6.3-1' 'CentOS-6.3-x86_64-minimal'
wget http://mirror.symnds.com/distributions/CentOS-vault/6.3/isos/x86_64/CentOS-6.3-x86_64-minimal.iso
bundle exec veewee vbox build 'ejs-centos6.3-1'
The CentOS install appeared to run without error but it's stuck waiting for the ssh login.
You're right, there's a Ssh server on listening on port 7222, but it's on the guest (VM), not the host.
The host (Veewee) is waiting to connect to it. This SSH service is supposed to become available when the VM install process finishes, that's one of the steps used by Veewee to assume that the setup went fine and that the VM is ready.
If Veewee blocks and never gets this SSH connection, I think there could be multiple reasons:
VM setup went wrong and something prevents it from finishing successfully. Check Veewee output and the Virtualbox VM graphical console that should have opened when launching vewee box build.
There's something preventing your host computer to connect to the VM at the network level.
The VM image doesn't have Sshd installed, and/or the veewee box configuration files (in veewee/definitions/ejs-centos6.3-1/) miss instructions to install the ssh package
You should try to login to the VM using Virtuabox console window and check if there's an ssh package installed (rpm -qa | grep openssh-server) and a process named sshd running.
I've run Veewee against Centos 7 built with GUI on and it stuck on anaconda asking for source of packages. I've checked the ks.cfg and it was pointing to dead resource (404). After pointing to valid url it went through.
I have a Pi that runs hostapd and dhcpd on arch linux to create it's own land with the Pi's (routers) IP being 10.0.0.1. This uses the wlan0 interface and it only serves as a standalone router running a web server.
Once I connect to the Pi, I use 10.0.0.1 to display the web pages, but I want to use a hostname such as firepi. I have tried using dnsmasq, but I haven't been successful. Any help would be greatly appreciated especially if you can give me some detailed examples as I am a novice.
The purpose of this system is that I have created a web app that you can use to ignite fireworks over WiFi at a safe distance. I would just like the convenience of using a hostname instead of the IP address.
I must add that I will more than likely be using an iPhone to connect to the server, should this affect anything.
Not too sure how or why but this is what I did and it is successfully working now, so this is just for future users who may need a similar setup to mine.
First I installed hostapd and dhcpd and made sure they were working. Next I changed '/etc/hostname' to firepi and the '/etc/hosts' and added '10.0.0.1 firepi'. Then I installed dnsmasq, and set the interface to wlan0, and finally added '10.0.0.1 firepi' to '/etc/resolv.conf'.
After a full reboot, I joined the network on my iPhone, navigated to firepi and sure enough, it worked!
Thanks to the other users for their advice and tips.
You can use avahi on Arch as well to resolve your hostname:
sudo pacman -S avahi nss-mdns
Start the avahi daemon:
sudo systemctl enable avahi-daemon.service
sudo systemctl start avahi-daemon.service
Edit /etc/nsswitch.conf
sudo vim /etc/nsswitch.conf
Change the line:
hosts: files myhostname dns
to
hosts: files myhostname mdns_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns
Reboot
Note: don't forget to add .local to your hostname.
See also:
http://blog.pixxis.be/post/77285636682/resolve-hostname-with-arch-linux-on-a-raspberry-pi
If you just want to be able to use "firepi" as hostname to connect to it, you can simply add it to your /etc/hosts file using the syntax "IP host".
To make it as easy as possible, run this command as root:
echo "10.0.0.1 firepi" >> /etc/hosts
That'll do the trick.
Can you try avahi ?
sudo apt-get install avahi-daemon and
sudo apt-get install avahi-browse
I've successfully used that on Raspian. Unless you change the hostname using
sudo raspi-config you will access via raspberrypi.local
Note that if you plan to access the RPi from Windows you will need to install Bonjour Service first(if you have iTunes intalled, you might have those, run services.msc and check if the Bonjour Service is started)
Another note: On a friend's iphone I've installed a generic vnc client and had x11vnc running on the RPi and succesfully managed to connect to the RPi (since avahi-daemon was installed)
I am running Ubuntu 12.04 on a VM on Fedora 18 host using QEMU/KVM and libvirtd. Now, when I fire up the virsh and give list command, it doesn't show any domain running, though my VM is running quite fine. Any idea what am I doing wrong?
It may caused by the user you issued the virsh command. It's normal that you start your VM by sudo but you can see nothing under your other accounts.
You can see your VMs via sudo virsh list --all
I just installed CentOS 6.3 on a new computer and am unable to SSH to it from our computer running Fedora 16. They are both on the same network.
Some facts:
- I can ping it from the Fedora machine.
- I can SSH to the CentOS computer to itself on the CentOS computer.
- I have looked into hosts allow and deny, I have set selinux to be permissive, I tried with iptables disabled on the Fedora computer
I am fresh out of ideas...
Thanks
Do you have fail2ban running?
Do you have denyhosts running?
Do you have iptables allowing TCP 22?
Do you have a line in your sshd_config that refers to "AllowUsers"? (most dont but some do, and if yours does, you need your account listed on that line)
Can you run this command tail -f /var/log/secure on that machine at the same time while trying to login from the second machine and spot the issue? If not, paste the output from that log here for me to comment on.
A long shot, but you might try service sshd restart and try again to see if that helps. Go ahead and run tail /varlog/messages while restarting that daemon to see if you spot anything unusual while doing that. If you spot the issue great, if you dont, post the output here for me to comment on.
Last, do this cp /etc/ssh/sshd_config /etc/ssh/sshd_config.back and then take a good known working sshd_config from another machine and place it over the top of yours and then restart the daemon again & try again.
My money is on seeing something that helps us in /var/log/secure.