I encrypted my root filesystem with the ubuntu default installer script. When the system boots i have to enter a password to decrypt my root partion with a password. But i want my internal drives to be encrypted as well and avoid to enter a password each time the partition is mounted. We will begin with the encryption of a pendrive to see how that works and what happens behind the scenes and resume with auto-mounting encrypted internal drives in another blog post.

A bunch of things about shell scripting i always forget. Writing it down helps me to keep that in mind.

Restic is a backup program written in go that makes doing backups easy. Here’s how i do it.

Here’s a quick guide on how to use ssh reverse proxy for web development. It’s useful when you want to access your local development server from outside your local network.

I am always tired of administrating servers, that’s why i’m constantly searching for easier tools. Caddy is one of them, and i easily replaced apache with it.

For security reasons its neccessary to disable the root user login on servers. Just look at /var/log/auth.log to see who tries to login.