Debian Core - Tricks & Tips

If you don't have Debian Core installed, here is the tutorial.  These are some tips and tricks that I have found useful. Use ROOT for all of these.

Hide This Login Information

touch ~/.hushlogin

Install Archey And Have It Run After login

apt-get install lsb-release scrot python ca-certificates

wget http://github.com/downloads/djmelik/archey/archey-0.2.8.deb

dpkg -i archey-0.2.8.deb

nano ~/.bashrc

Add these lines to the bottom - host -i displays the connected IP address

clear
archey
hostname -i
echo

To add to other users besides Root - nano /home/YOURuserNAME/.bashrc

clear
archey
hostname -i
echo

Auto-Login / Disable Extra ttys

nano /etc/inittab

change tty1 to: 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty tty1 --autologin root
User name is at the end.
I didn't notice any speed improvements, but if you want to disable tty3-tty6, comment them out with a #
Do NOT comment out tty1 or tty2

Enable Tab Completion

This allows you to use TAB when typing to save time.

apt-get install bash-completion

Skip GRUB Boot Menu

nano /etc/default/grub

Change GRUB_TIMEOUT=5 to GRUB_TIMEOUT=0

update-grub

Random Mac On Boot

apt-get install macchanger

nano /etc/init.d/macchanger

Add these lines (Change/remove eth0 and wlan0 if needed - ifconfig to check)

ifconfig eth0 down
ifconfig wlan0 down

/usr/bin/macchanger -r eth0 >/dev/null 2>/dev/null &
/usr/bin/macchanger -r wlan0 >/dev/null 2>/dev/null &

ifconfig eth0 up
ifconfig wlan0 up

dhclient eth0 >/dev/null 2>/dev/null &

dhclient wlan0 >/dev/null 2>/dev/null &

chmod +x /etc/init.d/macchanger
update-rc.d macchanger defaults 10
To check the difference after a reboot - macchanger -s eth0

Disable SSH Service On Boot

update-rc.d ssh remove

To start the service when you want to (root needed) service ssh start

To check if ssh is running service ssh status