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Re: Webtop – Alpine,Ubuntu,Fedora,and Arch containers containing full desktop envs

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Just put up basic auth infront of your services and be done with it.

the fact that we have to keep reinventing kerberos all the time because it doesn't speak http is starting to legitimately annoy me.

Firefox can be configured to use Kerberos for authentication (search for "Configuring Firefox to use Kerberos for SSO"); on Windows, Chrome is supposed to do so too by adding the domain as an intranet zone.

Re: Webtop – Alpine,Ubuntu,Fedora,and Arch containers containing full desktop envs

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post #33

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Just put up basic auth infront of your services and be done with it.

the fact that we have to keep reinventing kerberos all the time because it doesn't speak http is starting to legitimately annoy me.

HTTP auth can work with kerberos.

Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer -- all support some form of kerberos auth in HTTP/HTTPS.

Re: Webtop – Alpine,Ubuntu,Fedora,and Arch containers containing full desktop envs

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post #33

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the fact that we have to keep reinventing kerberos all the time because it doesn't speak http is starting to legitimately annoy me.

HTTP auth can work with kerberos. Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer -- all support some form of kerberos auth in HTTP/HTTPS.

I mean, I'm aware of SPNEGO etc. It's just that it was... ignored(?) by the startups/the community/google? Whatever little support there is is comparatively a worse experience than what we've got now for no really good reason.

Re: Webtop – Alpine,Ubuntu,Fedora,and Arch containers containing full desktop envs

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I've been using the LSIO Webtop images for a few years. They're awesome for composable desktops that I run behind a VPN for a quick and easy dirty connection at home. Combine the Webtop images by forcing it's traffic through the Gluetun [0] container and you're up and running. These Webtop containers are nice and snappy as well thanks to Kasm. Awesome OSS. [0] https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun

This is me being rather lazy admittedly, but do you have a compose/similar for connecting them by chance?

Here it is https://pastebin.com/64825QxC

Re: Webtop – Alpine,Ubuntu,Fedora,and Arch containers containing full desktop envs

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Just put up basic auth infront of your services and be done with it.

I've done that in the past, even for securing the admin pages of some software (there was once an issue where the admin page auth could be bypassed, this essentially adds another layer). With TLS it's okay for getting something up and running quickly. Of course, for the things that matter a bit more, you can also run your own CA and do mTLS, even without any of the other fancy cloud services.

After coming across a brief tutorial of mTLS in this tool for locking down access to my family photo sharing [0] I have bounced around the internet following various guides but haven't ended up with a pfx file that I can install in a browser. Can you recommend any resource to understand which keys sign what, and what a client certificate is verified against?

The guides I find often contain the openssl incantations with little explanation so I feel a bit like stumbling through the dark. I realize how much I've taken stacktraces for granted when this auth stuff is very "do or do not, there is no error"

[0] https://github.com/alangrainger/immich-public-proxy/blob/mai...

Re: Webtop – Alpine,Ubuntu,Fedora,and Arch containers containing full desktop envs

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There are operations that put cryptominers into any unauthenticated remote desktops they can find. Ask me how I know... Way friendlier than wiping your data though.

There are groups of people who hunt for writeable ftp servers to be used for random filesharing. At least this used to be a thing

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Re: Webtop – Alpine,Ubuntu,Fedora,and Arch containers containing full desktop envs

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Yeah, I made a mistake with my config. I had setup SWAG, with Authelia (i think?). Got password login working with 2fa. But my dumbass didn't realize I had left ports open. Logged in one day to find a terminal open with a message from someone who found my instance and got in. Called me stupid (I mean they're not wrong) and all kinds of things and deleted everything from my home drive to "teach me a lesson". Lesson pa…

But you can have Obsidian access from any device already if you easily setup syncing using the official method (and support the project by doing so) or one of the community plugins. Doing it this normal way avoids opening up a massive security hole too.

* any device you have admin rights to install software on, they are talking about being able to log in from any computer, not just their own

It surprises and annoys me that obsidian, logseq, etc don't have self hosted web front ends available. I think logseq will once they wrap up the db fork, and maybe someday we'll have nuclear fusion powerplants too.

Re: Webtop – Alpine,Ubuntu,Fedora,and Arch containers containing full desktop envs

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> "Warning Do not put this on the Internet if you do not know what you are doing. By default this container has no authentication and the optional environment variables CUSTOM_USER and PASSWORD to enable basic http auth via the embedded NGINX server should only be used to locally secure the container from unwanted access on a local network. If exposing this to the Internet we recommend putting it behind a reverse pro…

No they won’t. Octoprint (3d printing server) had a similar warning but they had to introduce actual user accounts to secure the system because people ignored it.
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