Essun
Essun
Essun is the mediaserver of Calafou local network. It is running Debian, the Universal Operating System. It is providing services for the people who are on the territory of Calafou. It is 8Gb ram and has 4 discs in it: 160Gb for system, 1Tb mirror discs, 3T for mediateca. You can connect here http://essun.calafou.org/
What does "Essun" mean?
Essun is one of the names of the protagonist of the Broken Earth trilogy by N. K. Jemisin. Essun belongs to a small group of people, called origenes, who have a special power to shape and redirect energy. Origenes are feared and hated by their society because of their powers, so if they are not murdered as children, they are carefully controlled, enslaved and exploited.
As the world ends, Essun is forced to join together with others. As she learns the strength of community and solidarity, she learns to use her powers without shame. And she learns that resistance is possible, even if it means causing the destruction of the world that had previously been her home.
Boot sequence: What happens when you turn on the machine?
- BIOS
- Here you can press F12 to choose boot device. The default is to boot the system on the hard drive. This is useful if you want to boot a rescue or install image from a pendrive, for example.
- Here you can press F2 to enter the BIOS configuration, but we have to find out the BIOS password. At the moment, we have no idea what is the BIOS password! We have to search how to reset this password...
- GRUB
- Here you can choose to start the system as usual, or to enter rescue mode. It is also possible to modify the kernel boot parameters. This is useful if you forgot the root password and want to reset it, for example.
- Initramfs
- Here cryptsetup asks for the LUKS encryption password. The password can be typed in using a keyboard connected to essun, or through SSH if your SSH keys are installed in initramfs (in /etc/dropbear-initramfs/authorized_keys cf this. For the second option, use the
unlock-essun.sh
script. The actual password can be found in the calafou keyringer repository, and you can see it from your computer like this:keyringer calafou decrypt lan.essun.luks.system
- To connect with ssh to ssh dropbear server at boot :
- Here cryptsetup asks for the LUKS encryption password. The password can be typed in using a keyboard connected to essun, or through SSH if your SSH keys are installed in initramfs (in /etc/dropbear-initramfs/authorized_keys cf this. For the second option, use the
ssh root@172.31.17.23
once in busybox, type :
cryptroot-unlock
and type the luks passphrase
- Systemd
- The hard drives ("block devices") specified in
/etc/crypttab
are unlocked, usually using key files in/etc/luks/
. - The hard drives ("block devices") specified in
/etc/fstab
are mounted, such as/mnt/3t
(a big hard drive for mediateca) and/mnt/mirror
(a mirrored drive for services). - Systemd manages the services, so when the computer starts, it tries to turn on the web server (apache2), etc.
- The hard drives ("block devices") specified in
- System
- You can log in if your SSH key is installed in the system:
ssh $USERNAME@essun.calafou.org
(where $USERNAME is your username).
- You can log in if your SSH key is installed in the system:
- Services to re-launch : (don't know why they doesn't start well at boot time)
systemctl restart etherpad-lite.service systemctl restart apache2.service systemctl status omnioussonification.service
- Container to start (as root)
lxc-start umap lxc-start bibretime lxc-ls -f
Services
Most of these services are only available from the local network!
Web Server
systemctl status apache2
/etc/apache2/sites-available/essun.calafou.org
The web server shows a page that explains Essum and links to the other services.
Pads
systemctl status etherpad
/opt/etherpad-lite/settings.json
The etherpad is providing real-time multi-user editable shared persistent documents.
A few plug-ins have been installed from this framasoft list (all did not instal ...) https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/etherpad_mypads_ynh
Streaming
systemctl status icecast2
/etc/icecast2/icecast.xml
Icecast2 is providing a stream ("radio") that you can play on your computer, for example with mplayer
or mpv
:
mplayer http://essun.calafou.org:8000
mpv http://essun.calafou.org:8000
File server
Mediateca FTP anonymous access
systemctl status proftpd
The file server is for uploading and downloading files to / from the Mediateca. You can access it with FileZilla from popular operating systems. Or you can use a command line client such as ncftp
.
ncftp ftp://essun.calafou.org
Filezilla config :
Essun SFTP access with a ssh key
To access Essun's Calafou files with a FTP client like Filezilla, you need a ssh pair of keys, to generate this pair of key under linux :
Create RSA Key Pair
You create your rsa key pair in the computer you want to log to the server
Be careful to pay attention from which user you create the rsa key pair in your local machine (computer). Since the rsa key pairs are saved in a hidden directory in my user home directory (~/.ssh), if trying to login from a different user, it will not work
So, from the user in my localmachine that I wish to use to access the server, I will create my rsa key pair. When generating the key, you will need to introduce a **"passphrase".**
$ ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096
By default it will generate two keys in ~/.ssh, a public key and a private key. The public key we will send to an admin of Anarcha server.
Send public key to the server
After generating an SSH key pair, you will want to copy your public key to your new server.
Assuming you generated an SSH key pair using the previous step, use the following command at the terminal of your local machine to print your public key (id_rsa.pub):
cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
This should print your public SSH key, which should look something like the following:
ssh-rsa AAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQDBGTO0tsVejssuaYR5R3Y/i73SppJAhme1dH7W2c47d4gOqB4izP0+fRLfvbz/tnXFz4iOP/H6eCV05hqUhF+KYRxt9Y8tVMrpDZR2l75o6+xSbUOMu6xN+uVF0T9XzKcxmzTmnV7Na5up3QM3DoSRYX/EP3utr2+zAqpJIfKPLdA74w7g56oYWI9blpnpzxkEd3edVJOivUkpZ4JoenWManvIaSdMTJXMy3MtlQhva+j9CgguyVbUkdzK9KKEuah+pFZvaugtebsU+bllPTB0nlXGIJk98Ie9ZtxuY3nCKneB+KjKiXrAvXUPCI9mWkYS/1rggpFmu3HbXBnWSUdf localuser@machine.local
Select the public key, and copy it to your clipboard or send it by email to someone who administrate essun
Configure Filezilla to access Essun with SFTP and this key
- See this tutorial https://filezillapro.com/docs/v3/basic-usage-instructions/ssh-private-keys-for-sftp/
NextCloud
We could try to install it like this:
We tried with this : https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/how-to-install-nextcloud-on-debian-10/ it seems to work (change the version of nextcloud to download)
More Nextcloud config
- To make the visio application Talk work : you have to use https for the website (see below) but it is limited to 5-6 persons at the same time, see https://github.com/nextcloud/spreed/issues/2515#issuecomment-598808719
- To make the ONLY OFFICE application work : you have to change the url > https of the ONLY OFFICE server in the settings (as an admin of the nextcloud)
- To integrate external storage as part of Nextcloud files
- Possible to use the "Local Storage" application : activate it > then see as an admin in the settings the local storage
- To allow people to put file with anonymous FTP + via Nextcloud : https://serverfault.com/questions/184548/ftp-and-apache-permission-issues
So :
groupadd www-ftp usermod -a -G www-ftp www-data usermod -a -G www-ftp anonftp chown -R :www-ftp /mnt/3t/ftp/MEDIATECA chmod -R g+rw /mnt/3t/ftp/MEDIATECA
Even more config to optimize things
As seen in https://nuvol.calafou.org/index.php/settings/admin/overview there were things that needed to be optimized :
cd /var/www/html/nextcloud sudo -u www-data php occ db:add-missing-indices apt install php-intl php-imagick sudo -u www-data php occ maintenance:mode --on sudo -u www-data php occ db:convert-filecache-bigint sudo -u www-data php occ maintenance:mode --off
Activate cache
apt install php-apcu phpenmod intl nano config/config.php
Add this in the file before );
'memcache.local' => '\OC\Memcache\APCu',
Restart Apache after all this
systemctl restart apache2
Rescan the files
sudo -u www-data php occ files:scan --all -v
If problem while scanning with unlocked files :
mysql -u root -p connect nextclouddb DELETE FROM oc_file_locks WHERE 1;
or more wild
TRUNCATE TABLE oc_file_locks;
Set https certificate on each subdomain.calafou.org with a certbot wildcard
One certificate for all the subdomains
- Certbot wildcard tab : https://certbot.eff.org/lets-encrypt/debianbuster-apache
- Plug in Gandi for automatic renew https://github.com/obynio/certbot-plugin-gandi
- How to get the Gandi API key https://doc.livedns.gandi.net/
Install Gandi plug-in
apt remove python-cryptography pip install cryptography pip install certbot-plugin-gandi certbot certonly -a certbot-plugin-gandi:dns --certbot-plugin-gandi:dns-credentials gandi.ini -d \*.calafou.org --server https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory
Activate mod ssl for Apache
a2enmod ssl systemctl restart apache2
Create the virtual hosts :
<IfModule mod_ssl.c> <VirtualHost *:443> ServerName essun.calafou.org ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost DocumentRoot /var/www/essun.calafou ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/essun-error.log CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/essun-access.log combined SSLEngine on SSLProxyEngine On SSLProxyVerify none SSLProxyCheckPeerCN off SSLProxyCheckPeerName off SSLProxyCheckPeerExpire off SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/calafou.org/fullchain.pem SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/calafou.org/privkey.pem Include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-apache.conf </VirtualHost> </<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
Renew auto
crontab -e 0 0 * * 0 certbot renew -q -a certbot-plugin-gandi:dns --certbot-plugin-gandi:dns-credentials /etc/letsencrypt/gandi/gandi.ini --server https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory
LXC container por Libretime y umap
Installation of the containers
Use of lxcbr0 bridge to allow autostart
Create a lxc-net default config file :
sudo nano /etc/default/lxc-net
USE_LXC_BRIDGE="true" LXC_BRIDGE="lxcbr0" LXC_ADDR="10.0.3.1" LXC_NETMASK="255.255.255.0" LXC_NETWORK="10.0.3.0/24" LXC_DHCP_RANGE="10.0.3.2,10.0.3.254" LXC_DHCP_MAX="253"
Restart lxc network
systemctl restart lxc-net.service
Adapt the config of each container
nano /mnt/mirror/lxc/bibretime/config
# Network configuration lxc.net.0.type = veth lxc.net.0.hwaddr = 00:16:3e:cf:c1:dd lxc.net.0.link = lxcbr0 lxc.net.0.flags = up
# Autostart lxc.start.delay = 10 lxc.start.auto = 1
Use the container
list containers
lxc-ls -f
start
lxc-start bibretime
stop
lxc-stop bibretime
attach to a container to have a root prompt
lxc-attach bibretime
Onduleur Salicru SPS ONE
- https://www.salicru.com/fr/onduleurs/sps-one.html
- Official Software : https://www.salicru.com/files/software/13/installviewpowerhtml_linux_text_x86_64.tar.gz
The software provided is ugly (tomcat java), so let's use NUT to replace it, see :
- https://www.jormc.es/2014/05/11/raspi-conectando-un-sai-salicru-sps-one-900va/comment-page-1/
- http://2tazasdelinux.blogspot.com/2015/11/moniitorizando-nuestro-sai-con-nut.html
- https://blog.shadypixel.com/monitoring-a-ups-with-nut-on-debian-or-ubuntu-linux/
Essun backup
Essun backup is being stored gpg-encrypted in nusse.
The software used is https://github.com/sukria/Backup-Manager/
We created the user `backup` both in essun and nusse to create/store the backups.
The user backup in essun has a gpg keyring with a public key.
The private key it is not in the servers and it's needed only to decrypt the backups.
There's only 1 configuration file, `/etc/backup-manager.conf`.
These are the changed lines:
export BM_REPOSITORY_ROOT="/mnt/mirror/backup" export BM_REPOSITORY_USER="backup" export BM_REPOSITORY_GROUP="backup" export BM_ARCHIVE_METHOD="tarball-incremental" export BM_ENCRYPTION_METHOD="gpg" export BM_ENCRYPTION_RECIPIENT="264128C3E9B4F451C0105757350C60B958D846EC" export BM_TARBALL_DIRECTORIES="/mnt/mirror/calafou_actual" export BM_TARBALL_BLACKLIST="/mnt/mirror/backup" export BM_UPLOAD_METHOD="ssh-gpg" export BM_UPLOAD_HOSTS="172.31.17.202" export BM_UPLOAD_DESTINATION="/mnt/backup1T/backup" export BM_UPLOAD_SSH_USER="backup" export BM_UPLOAD_SSH_KEY="/mnt/mirror/backup/.ssh/id_ed25519" export BM_UPLOAD_SSH_HOSTS="172.31.17.202" export BM_UPLOAD_SSH_PORT="22" export BM_UPLOAD_SSH_DESTINATION="/mnt/backup1T/backup" export BM_UPLOAD_SSH_TTL="23" export BM_UPLOAD_SSHGPG_RECIPIENT="264128C3E9B4F451C0105757350C60B958D846EC"
It runs as often as configured in `/etc/cron.d/backup`