johntash
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- Comment on Fork of HomeBox released (v0.11.0) 1 week ago:
Snipe it and grocy are the ones I see pretty often. I haven’t tried homebox to compare yet though
- Comment on Syncing local server with seedbox 1 month ago:
The only time rsync is really slow is when your dealing with millions of small files since it only transfers a single file at a time.
rclone is better in that respect since it transfers multiple files in parallel. I don’t think the speed of a single transfer is going to differ much.
- Comment on linux dashboard 1 month ago:
If you’re wanting something that keeps historical data, vnstat is another good one for network usage
- Comment on Traefik 3.0 GA Has Landed: Here's How to Migrate 1 month ago:
Nothing wrong with that, Caddy is great!
- Comment on Clean your physical connectors! 1 month ago:
Dumb question but what do you mean you cycled them a few times?
- Comment on Google Feed alternative 1 month ago:
Thanks for linking it, that’s a pretty cool idea.
- Comment on HashiCorp joins IBM to accelerate multi-cloud automation 2 months ago:
Any idea if there’s a fork of Nomad and Consul?
- Comment on Thinking of building a database of "stuff" that I have at home + some other family households. Multiple accounts with private and shared inventories. 2 months ago:
Any idea how Homebox compares to Grocy? I want to try both, but gave up on trying to use snipe-it a while back because of the effort needed to input everything. Both of these look simpler though
- Comment on HashiCorp joins IBM to accelerate multi-cloud automation 2 months ago:
OpenBao is the open source fork of Vault
- Comment on what will be my next server operating system (Fedora Server, Fedora CoreOS, NixOS), your experience and opinion 2 months ago:
Do you have any reasons for wanting to switch your server OS, or is it more to learn something new? Either way is fine, but it might change what is more interesting to you.
I used centos forever, but only recently started slowly migrating everything to NixOS. I use NixOS for the OS and a few common things like VPN, monitoring, etc. For all of my actual services, I deploy them using Hashicorp Nomad with docker.
I’m not sure i would recommend defining docker containers using NixOS. It’d be fine for a couple servers, but not great for a cluster where services can move around.
- Comment on Which of these VPS providers would you recommend? 2 months ago:
From your list, I’d go with hetzner. Racknerd is another good cheap option.
Also check out lowendtalk or lowendbox. Various providers post deals there petty often and the community is active.
- Comment on Is rsync.net a good service for backups? 2 months ago:
I like rsync.net. They offer reduced pricing for using restic/borg too.
I’m not sure how many years I’ve used them, but I never had any issues. The speeds also seem better than at least b2.
- Comment on Selfhosted systrem to monitor daily incoming email (backup reports) 2 months ago:
Not built in, but maybe a tool like windmill, nodered, or n8n? I think they all support imap and can run on a timer
- Comment on Looking for a good, cheap backup solution. 2 months ago:
Restic and rsync.net. look around and there should be a discount usually.
Kopia is also pretty good and has a web interface if that’s helpful for you.
- Comment on Simple authentication for homelab? 3 months ago:
Thanks for the recommendation, I’ll take a look at some of his videos. I managed to get the un/pw on one page, but haven’t done much with webauthn/passwordless stuff yet so that might be useful too.
- Comment on Simple authentication for homelab? 3 months ago:
Thanks! I managed to get user/pass on the same page and it works great with the compatibility mode
- Comment on Simple authentication for homelab? 3 months ago:
That’s essentially what I am doing. Everything is on the LAN by default. I have two instances of Traefik. One that runs only on internal VPN ips, and another on remote servers using public ips. So I can choose which services are accessible over lan/vpn or public (routed through a vpn to lan).
That doesn’t solve the authentication problem if I want to expose something to the internet though, or even sso inside the lan.
- Comment on Simple authentication for homelab? 3 months ago:
You can change the logon flow to make the username and password on the same page There is a comparability button as well on the login flow that allows bitwarden and other to auto fill correctly.
Thanks for the tips, I found the compatibility button and will try it out. I’m not sure I see how to change the username/password to be on the same page though. Do you have to create a whole new login flow?
- Comment on Simple authentication for homelab? 3 months ago:
Do you have a link for padlock by any chance?
I’m not sure if this is it, but I found a password manager named padloc: github.com/padloc/padloc
- Comment on Simple authentication for homelab? 3 months ago:
Did you move to Keycloak, or something else?
- Comment on Simple authentication for homelab? 3 months ago:
Thanks for confirming, I just saw that as well.
I’m going to try some of the other solutions in this thread, but I might still come back to authelia and just ignore my requirement for having social login. I like the idea of sending someone a link and saying “Hey just log in with your google account” instead of having to create an actual user for them, but maybe I can use something else specifically for those cases.
- Comment on Simple authentication for homelab? 3 months ago:
cloudflare access + cloudflare tunnels is a cool solution, and was easy to set up in the past, but I’d rather stick to something completely self-hosted. I’d probably use it for something completely public, but not things that route into my homelab.
- Comment on Simple authentication for homelab? 3 months ago:
Once I’m authenticated, it’s actually pretty okay. It goes through the redirections fast enough that I wouldn’t notice usually. But the login pages would take several seconds to load for me, and navigating around the admin ui also seemed to take several seconds for each page change. So not extremely slow, but slow enough to notice and get annoyed by it. Admittedly I probably could increase the session duration or something to help with that too.
- Comment on Simple authentication for homelab? 3 months ago:
Canaille looks pretty interesting and simple too, thanks for the link!
- Comment on Simple authentication for homelab? 3 months ago:
Thanks, I’ll take a look! It might be helpful even if I use a different idp
- Comment on Simple authentication for homelab? 3 months ago:
Do you have any issues with Authentik being slow? It might be my environment since I haven’t done much troubleshooting yet.
- Comment on Simple authentication for homelab? 3 months ago:
As long as it’s a web app, it’s usually fine and can provide an extra layer of security. The app does need to have some support for sso if you want it to be seamless though, without logging in twice.
Most of my services are internal only, but sometimes I want to give access to someone on the internet without also giving them VPN access. If the app doesn’t support any kind of login, having an Auth proxy in front of it really helps for that use case.
Remembering lots of passwords isn’t a big deal if you have a password manager, but not having to log in to each app separately is nice. It’s also nice to be able to put Auth in front of things that don’t support it natively.
- Comment on Simple authentication for homelab? 3 months ago:
That doesn’t sound too bad, thanks for the instructions. I’ll probably give keycloak another try too.
Do you know what kind of cpu memory usage it has? I saw the newer versions are supposed to be lighter, but haven’t tested it yet.
- Comment on Simple authentication for homelab? 3 months ago:
Hmm I thought authelia could only act as an oidc provider, I didn’t think it could allow logging in through a Google account for example?
I’ll take a look at the docs again, thanks!
- Comment on Simple authentication for homelab? 3 months ago:
Thanks, kanidm looks promising. I’ll try it out this weekend