SSH Tunnel/SOCKS Proxy

May 17th, 2010

Instructions are for Mac, YMMV. Enter the following command into Terminal, replacing myuser@myserver.com for the username/host where you have SSH access: ssh -D 8080 -f -C -q -N myuser@myserver.com Thats it!  You may now configure localhost:8080 as a SOCKS proxy in your browser (see the link below for generic/Safari instructions – Firefox is configured in [...]

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Hide Accounts from Windows Login Screen

May 4th, 2010

Login accounts can be hidden from the Windows Welcome/login screen by creating a registry key as follows: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WinLogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList Add DWORD for “AccountName” and set value to 0 to hide it from the UI I use this for setting up Access Code authentication with LogMeIn after LMI has been installed.  You can create the LogMeInRemoteUser, [...]

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