TurnKey Linux Virtual Appliance Library

Making TurnKey more turnkey - the end to default passwords

By Alon Swartz - 16 comments | Latest by L. Arnold

In our quest to make the upcoming TurnKey 11.0 release more "turnkey", I set out to extend the firstboot inithooks to include application specific configuration hooks such as setting of the admin password, email and domain to serve (where applicable).

I'm glad to announce that the quest is now over, and that puts the end to default passwords.

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Exploring S3 based filesystems S3FS and S3Backer

By Liraz Siri - 3 comments | Latest by Alessandro Foghieri

In the last couple of days I've been researching Amazon S3 based filesystems, to figure out if maybe we could integrate that into an easy to use backup solution for TurnKey Linux appliances.

Note that S3 could only be a part of the solution. It wouldn't be a good idea to rely exclusively on S3 based automatic backups because of the problematic security architecture it creates. If an attacker compromises your server, he can easily compromise and subvert or destroy any S3 based automatic backups. That's bad news.

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