Category: networking

Midnight Commander remote connect via Shell link (copy files over SSH) and SFTP link using FISH and public key authentication

In this post, I show you how to configure SSH for Midnight Commander to remotely copy or move files with the file manager’s Shell link feature and public key authentication. I will also explain the difference between files transferred over Shell Protocol (FISH) and Secure Copy Protocol (SCP) and say a word or two about Midnight Commander’s SFTP feature.

Source: Midnight Commander remote connect via Shell link (copy files over SSH) and SFTP link using FISH and public key authentication – 4sysops

Easy, quick and free valid SSL certificates for your HomeLab (or other local web servers) using DuckDNS and ACME DNS-01

This video and the accompanying article explain how to set up easy SSL certificates in a HomeLab environment using DNS-01 validation.  This method should also work for other types of locally-hosted services (in other words, servers on your local network that have a web interface, but that aren’t exposed to the Internet).  The problem is that obtaining SSL certificates for internal HomeLab services can be challenging, especially when you don’t have a public IP or don’t want to expose your services to the internet.  The video and article demonstrate how to use DNS-01 validation to obtain SSL certificates from Let’s Encrypt using your internal DNS server. This approach eliminates the need for a public IP or exposing services to the internet.

Article: Easy, quick and free valid SSL certificates for your homelab using DuckDNS and ACME DNS-01 (Wolfgang’s Blog)

How to connect to Raspberry Pi Desktop using wayvnc VNC Server

The following description is from a (slightly edited) Mastodon post:

When I prepared a Raspberry Pi with the latest Raspberry Pi OS (based on Debian Bookworm) as a monitoring and observability display, I noticed the “wayvnc” package during the dist-upgrade.

Turns out this is a pre-installed VNC server package – at least on the Desktop variant.

But how can the VNC Server be configured and started and more importantly, how can I connect using a VNC viewer? Figured it out and wrote about it

Link: How to connect to Raspberry Pi Desktop using wayvnc VNC Server (Claudio Kuenzler)
Also see: Virtual Network Computing (VNC) in the Raspberry Pi Documentation

How to Set Up Peer-to-Peer VPN with Tinc on Ubuntu 22.04

Tinc is free and open-source VPN software that can be used to create mesh VPN networks. It is a small and powerful VPN daemon that can be installed on multiple platforms. Tinc uses encryptions and tunneling for creating a secure private network between multiple hosts.

Tinc provides additional features such as encryption, compression, and automatic mesh routing. This allows you to create secure and distributed private networks between servers in different locations.

In this tutorial, you will set up a peer-to-peer VPN server with tinc using multiple Ubuntu 22.04 servers. You will set up a peer-to-peer VPN with three different servers. Each server will be able to connect via a secure VPN connection.

Source: How to Set Up Peer-to-Peer VPN with Tinc on Ubuntu 22.04 (Howtoforge)