Monthly Archives: June 2008

Ultimate home server - NTP and Syslog

June 28, 2008 – 9:41 pm

Today I’m installing and configuring an NTP (Network Time Protocol) server, and configuring syslog to be able to log network stuff. NTP is needed to keep the workstations on the network synced up so that kerberos can work properly, kerberos will be used for network wide authentication and may, hopefully, allow me to achieve single [...]

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Ultimate Home Server - Configuring the base system

June 28, 2008 – 1:09 am

Alright, in this post I’m trying to get the base system set up with a decent GRUB configuration, a very simple firewall, the OpenSSH server, and getting encryption keys to work on an USB stick. I will include some links to further information in each section. You will need to be root for most of [...]

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Ultimate home server - Installing the base system

June 26, 2008 – 4:03 pm

This is a rather large complicated project for me. I’m putting these posts here mostly as a record of what worked for me, or possibly what didn’t work. If you use these pages to attempt this yourself then I hope that these pages are helpful, but I cannot guarantee any certain results. If you encounter [...]

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My attempt at an ultimate Ubuntu server

June 25, 2008 – 6:56 pm

I’m hoping to accomplish:

Encrypted root file system, as well as a fully encrypted large LVM2 array of three 250 gig disks for data storage.
Encryption keys stored on an external USB stick, leaving the option to use the stick as a key for the encrypted drives, or manually input passphrases to boot the machine.
Xen virtual machines [...]

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