Tag: linux

  • Folder ownership problems with Jellyfin

    After being so blase about the file permissions when mounting the share to the Linux file system, and testing that root could read and write to the share, I ran into problems immediately when trying to add the media folder as a library in Jellyfin – getting the error “The path could not be found.…

  • External USB Drives in Linux

    Many modern Linux distros will auto-mount USB drives – they just pop up in the graphical file manager as users would expect. When you’re running server, older, or smaller versions, that’s probably not going to be the case, and you’ll have to do it old school. Let’s look at some basics. lsblk will list the…

  • SSH & the scary warning

    The first time you connect to a new server with ssh, it asks you something like: Once you’ve said yes, it adds the server ‘fingerprint’ to the known hosts file, then next time you ssh there, it feels safe – we know this server. But…. if you’re playing around with virtual machines. Loading them, booting…

  • Chinese Hackers Want to steal my Hello World container

    A smart thing to do after setting up a server on the internet, is to set up SSH keys and then turn passwords off for SSH. The reason for this is that scanning for open port 22 on IP addresses, then brute forcing password files on them is pretty much hacker 101. So if you…

  • sudo Incident Reports – where do they go?

    Even though it’s my server, I still have a pang of guilt when this happens. I always imagine Richard Stallman (or someone with a similar 2000’s database administrator beard) looking at me disappointedly and shaking his head slowly. It does raise the question though – since it’s my server, shouldn’t I be getting a text…