Lab setup: Secure your SSH communication with certificates

When you Ssh the first time to a host the screen shows something like: Be honest: Do you just accept the shown Fingerprint of the remote host or do you really doublecheck the presented fingerprint before you accept ? My guess: Most of the time the presented fingerprint gets accepted without any additional check. This

Secure your SSH communication with certificates

How about securing your SSH-Server to only support login-attempts including a valid signed certificate from a trusted CA ? This sounds pretty cool, but there are a couple of pitfalls which should be outlined first: OpenSSH’s decision to use its own proprietary SSH certificates instead of X.509 certificates, as outlined in RFC 6187 (no draft,

Duplicati RPi setup on 64-bit Ubuntu OS Jammy (22.04)

Setting up Duplicati on Ubuntu Jammy (22.04) for Raspberry Pi (RPI) is a great way to ensure your data is securely backed up. Duplicati is a free, open-source backup solution that allows you to store encrypted, incremental, and compressed backups on various cloud storage services and remote file servers. It supports a wide range of storage

Grafana water-temperature

Bosch Heat-pump, Influx, Grafana and Home-Assistant: get the water-temperature presented

Used Hard/Software:Home Assistant Frontend 20240806.1 Core 2024.8.0 Supervisor 2024.08.0 Operating System 12.4 HA-Integration: Bosch custom component v0.26.1 It was a hard time to find the right Grafana-settings to get the water-temperature presented.Bosch/Home-Assistant transports this value based on the state-series: Hence Grafana needs a statement as shown: Example output: Done 🙂