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 for various tasks:
- Base machine with SSH, NTP, and kerberos servers, as well as network logging capabilities.
- DHCP/DynamicDNS server, and possibly a caching squid proxy server, to make internal networking easy and cache external DNS queries as well as maybe pages.
- OpenLDAP/SAMBA server with CUPS, for user management and file/printer sharing across my network.
- LAMP server for a private web development environment.
- Apt-cacher and PXE install server for network maintenance needs.
- Earning more geek points than either of my two friends can ever dream of
I’m going to do all of this using Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron, both server and, eventually PXE installs for most of the computers in my house…
I’ll be back tomorrow with the first part, installing the base server on encrypted drives.
