RedWizard

I come from a Windows management history and work within a Windows Domain. So there is a level of "ease of use" that I get out of having a separate account in the "domain admins" group within Active Directory.

So now that I'm building out a home lab, and playing with Linux more, I have a few Linux servers floating around. The means of authentication are all over the place because they were all set up at different parts of the learning process. One server uses keypair authentication, the others are just PW authentication, and all the credentials on the servers are different (naturally).

It feels disorganized, and I think it would be good to learn how to do it right. I know that the modes of management are very different, and Linux servers can become effectively disposable if done correctly.

So I guess these are my questions:

• How do you streamline authenticating to multiple servers under your control?
• Is key authentication the way to go? If so how do you manage your keys?
• do you make a default admin account and then make a new account for you specifically to authenticate?

I'm browsing from lemmygrad via jerboa and every hexbear post/comment/user profile that has an image in it is broken for me. Anyone else experiencing this?

I know that I can use 3rd party services to set up a tunnel, like Cloudflare, but I'd like to implement this myself.

I feel like every time I research this question I find all kinds of blogs / form posts across the timescape on the topic, and I'm just looking for whatever might be the most current or recommended best method of configuring a VPS tunnel. I'm behind a CG-Nat which is why I want to set one up.

If you've done this recently yourself, where did you get your info from?

Thanks!

What are you using to keep informed of new software versions? Most of what I'm looking to track is open source and on GitHub but some isn't. Getting alerts via Google chat or slack or email would be cool.

Not sure if this is even something that exists at the moment.

Looks like since about an hour ago, lemmy.world has been serving read ECONNRESET responses at a high frequency. Not sure if this is a real issue, but I'm not seeing anything on other instances I'm tracking.

edit: I changed the check frequency and that seems to have "resolved" the errors on my end. Probably a better indication of actual uptime than before, but maybe not as representative of the end-user browsing experience.