brickfrog

I’m definitely in the thinking with others that keep admin/privileged and normal users separate. I kind of look at it as a way to minimize fallout from any unexpected security compromises. Will always do my best to prevent/avoid that, but if it happens it better happen on a non-privileged account.

But the downside is it can be quite inconvenient, especially if I need to administer or debug something quickly.

A bit, but I don’t find that to be too cumbersome. The initial setup period yeah, you’re constantly jumping into admin mode, but once things are configured and settled down you hopefully don’t need to jump into admin mode often.

I’m also not sure if my homelab expands, should I share the admin user credentials with other human admins or not.

That’s a fair question and it depends on the service(s) really. I don’t know what the general consensus is on that but I’d say that other admins should have their own separate admin account and user account (e.g. call it “joe” and “joe_admin” or whatever). Sharing credentials, especially admin credentials, seems like its own security risk. But I also get that sometimes it’s simply not possible to maintain multiple admin accounts and you just have to do the best you can.

Jelllyfin + Subfin (github.com/williamkray/subfin-plugin) works well, I’ve been using it with the OpenSubsonic Android apps listed in www.navidrome.org/apps/?platform=android&api=open… without issue. e.g. Substreamer, Tempus, Airdrome, etc. all work fine with Jellyfin + Subfin.

I’m guessing you’re not on Android since Jellyfin has an Android app, but you should be able to use any Subsonic/OpenSubsonic app once set up with the plugin.

That’s weird, maybe an update broke something? What I would maybe do is uninstall Xrdp (and maybe remove/rename the old config files just in case), then re-install and configure it. From there if it’s still not working try to see what’s showing up in the log files maybe.

I did notice that Xrdp requires some extra configuration to work properly with Linux Mint Cinnamon, you apparently need to create a .xsession file in the home folder of whichever user you’re trying to remote into. I’m not on Linux Mint myself but maybe searching around will give you some tips e.g. this seems like a good rundown gist.github.com/…/2ab9b5d41bbaceca8471d591755a189…

Yup, been using Xrdp in a Debian + GNOME Wayland setup without issue.

RDP (the same protocol Windows Remote Desktop uses) works fine on Linux. I’d suggest investigating why that suddenly stopped working for you.

For what it’s worth Xrdp seems to work well on Linux for enabling a RDP Remote Desktop server… I suspect you are / were(?) already using Xrdp but maybe haven’t investigated why it stopped working.