Comment on virtualizing PFSense. What else works besides ESXi for virtual networking?
tofubl@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months agoOkay, I think I found a bit of a catch with Incus or LXD. I want a solution with a web UI, and while Incus has one, it seems to have access control either browser certificate based or with a central auth server. Neither are a good solution for me - I would much prefer regular user auth with the option to use an auth server at some point (but I don’t want to take all of this on all at once.)
I hope it’s okay that I keep coming back to you with these questions. You seem to be a strong Incus-evangelist. :)
TCB13@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You aren’t wrong, the WebUI is stateless, it doesn’t know of any users nor it stores any other context information.
The certificates are required for the UI client to authenticate with the underlying LXD server itself. Much like the SSH authentication is boils down to creating a public/private key pair and the PK is added to your browser(s) and the public key to the server. I believe this is a good walkthrough of the process for anyone starting out.
At work we use Authelia and HAProxy to get around the need to distribute a certificate for each client. At home I simply use Nginx as a reverse proxy to the WebUI with the
proxy_ssl_certificatepassing a certificate down to it. Here another configuration example of how to use Nginx to pass the certificate.tofubl@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
Thanks for your patience. I appreciate it and I’m learning a lot. 🙏
There’s a chance yet!