Frood, an Alpine Initramfs NAS (2024)
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yjftsjthsd-h
FiloSottile
TIL about ZFSBootMenu! Still, the whole frood system is significantly less complex than ZFSBootMenu alone.
sunshine-o
ZFSBootMenu and Alpine are a beautiful match.
cassianoleal
> root/etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key and root/etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key.pub and root/root/.ssh/authorized_keys for obvious reasons.
What are the _obvious_ reasons for the NAS root to have an SSH key?
yjftsjthsd-h
To log in and administer it? There's even an example; search for "extlinux --once". (There are other options, like a web UI or non-root SSH, but that's the obvious thing. Also if you want to advocate non-root I'm going to want to hear a threat model.)
cassianoleal
You don't need a private key on the host for that, only your public key in authorized_keys.
Edit: Oh boy I should have paid more attention. Those are the host keys. :facepalm:
tomhow
Thanks, macroexpanded!
Frood, an Alpine Initramfs NAS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42428722 - Dec 2024 (13 comments)
If you already have a ZFS pool, I'd probably personally just throw on zfsbootmenu and a ZFS-root Alpine install. But, this is cooler and does have advantages:)