1. disable SSH host key checking, means skip the (yes/no) question when ssh

ssh -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no

Details

  1. generate random password for account
dd if=/dev/random bs=1024 count=1 2> /dev/null base64
  1. autologin

expect-lite is very useful.

  1. dos2unix missing (Ubuntu 10.04)

$sudo aptitude install tofrodos

$sudo ln -s fromdos dos2unix

$sudo ln -s todos unix2dos