Monthly Archives: May 2016

Let’s Encrypt automation – The awesome way

Posted on 4. May 2016 by bastelfreak

Free SSL for the mass \o/ Cryptography is important. I like to encrypt as much traffic and data as possible, not only the important stuff. Let’s Encrypt is a new project sponsored by multiple big companies and the Linux Foundation … Continue reading →

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Short Tip: Fiddling around with login shells

Posted on 3. May 2016 by bastelfreak

I’m currently playing around with LARS, this script collection creates a arch ISO with some post-install magic, for example setting a login shell for root. The used code is: I could boot up the image and ssh into it with … Continue reading →

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VirtAPI-Stack Review Part 1 – What happend in the last six months?

Posted on 2. May 2016 by bastelfreak

I announced the VirtAPI-Stack during the last “30 Posts in 30 Days” Challenge. Let us do a recap, what did we achive in the past 6 months? VirtAPI-Stack description: Let us start with a short description, what was that VirtAPI … Continue reading →

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Creating a reliable Arch Linux Package Build Environment

Posted on 1. May 2016 by bastelfreak

The Arch Linux developers created some fancy scripts to setup a build environment. It consists of a btrfs subvolume with a minimal Arch Linux installation (only packages from base-devel). A snapshot will be created for each build, the builds will … Continue reading →

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