Bernard's Wiki - deb9

apache

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-04-20T08:05:16+00:00

Apache 2.4 and PHP 5/7 Apache 2.4 Installation * Install apache 2.4 $ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install apache2 * Add one of the two commands to add the user to apache's user group: $ sudo adduser www-data $ sudo usermod -a -G www-data

audacity

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-01T05:38:27+00:00

Audacity 2 (apt) Installation * Install with: sudo apt install audacity Remote control I use an Android tablet to remote control my Audacity installation on the server. * Install “XServer XSDL” on your mobile device * Add the following commands to ConnectBot on your mobile device

crypt

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-10-18T22:04:29+00:00

Data drive encryption Encryption on Debian 9 * Install dm-crypt apt-get install cryptsetup * If you encrypted data drives during initial system setup, your swap space will be encrypted as well. First remove the swap encryption. sudo mkswap -f /dev/sda6 sudo swapon /dev/sda6

encrypted

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-04-27T21:21:29+00:00

Encrypted partitions/folders with auto-mount Encrypted Shared Folders - Synology DSM This guide covers a concept to allow a Synology NAS to automatically mount encrypted shared folders on boot or reboot after a power failure. The keystore should be made unavailable, which prevents the NAS from mounting the encrypted shared folder(s). This guide assumes you are familiar with the encryption and keystore concepts of a Synology NAS running DSM 6.2 or above. In my setup, all shared folders which co…

gemini

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-05-06T19:03:25+00:00

Physical Server Installation - Debian Stretch 9.8.0 (Apollo / Gemini) * Debian 9 Installation * Debian 9 Setup * Virtualbox Host * Debian 9 Data drive encryption * Encrypted partitions/folders with auto-mount * Automount a luks encrypted volume on system start * Setting Up Full Disk Encryption on Debian 9 Stretch * VirtualBox: Encryption of Disk Images * Where is rc.local in Debian 9 (Debian Stretch) * dm-crypt/Encrypting an entire system * Create a luks encrypted partiti…

install

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-01-08T10:48:40+00:00

Installation Install ISO image * Test your hardware compatibility with a Debian Live system, then do a manual install from the same image to a new SSD * Partition manually, allocate 32GB to swap and the remaining space to / * Data drives must be set to RAID, LVM, CRYPT in this order. For my use cases LUKS on LVM is the best scenario.

luks

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-07-21T15:35:42+00:00

LUKS - Disk Encryption Encryption on Debian 9 * Install dm-crypt apt-get install cryptsetup * If you encrypted data drives during initial system setup, your swap space will be encrypted as well. First remove the swap encryption. sudo mkswap -f /dev/sda6 sudo swapon /dev/sda6

lvm

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-01-17T09:59:43+00:00

LVM - Logical Volume Manager Install logical volumes (LVM) Prepare and install volumes Prepare a single disk or a disk raid: lvm lvm> pvcreate lvm> vgcreate // or several physical volumes: lvm> lvcreate lvm> quit mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/ mount /dev/mapper/

mariadb

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-09-25T09:14:35+00:00

MariaDB 10.3 Installation from Debian 10 repositories # apt update # apt install mariadb-server # mysql_secure_installation Enter a root password. * How To Install MariaDB on Debian 9 * How To Install MariaDB on Debian 11 * How to Transfer All MySQL Databases From Old to New Server phpMyAdmin * phpMyAdmin # apt update # apt install phpmyadmin php-mbstring php-gettext # phpenmod mbstring # systemctl restart apache2

mdadm

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-04-03T08:08:03+00:00

RAID - mdadm (Software RAID) Grow RAID1 to RAID5 * Existing RAID1 array is md127, array to be removed is md126 * Backup all data * Make sure the devices are unmounted sudo umount /dev/md126 * Check the details sudo mdadm --detail /dev/md126

nut

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-08-17T07:06:49+00:00

NUT - Network UPS Tools This guide explains how to install NUT on a client / server architecture with several clients accessing the UPS. NUT Server Installation * Installing the nut package, should add the nut user and group. If it doesn’t, you have to add those manually.

obs

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-02-13T11:10:13+00:00

OBS - Open Broadcast System Install with: sudo apt update sudo apt install ffmpeg sudo apt install obs-studio * Install Instructions

olympus

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-12-01T05:38:09+00:00

Physical Server Installation - Debian Stretch 9.9 Olympus Server * Installation * Debian 9 Setup * Virtualbox * RAID - mdadm (Software RAID) * LVM - Logical Volume Manager * LUKS - Disk Encryption * Encrypted partitions/folders with auto-mount * NUT - Network UPS Tools * SSH Client and Server * OpenVPN * Samba File Server * UFW Firewall * X11 * Services * VNC * Tuning * Sound System * Postfix * Tools Client Due to my server's location next to my audio e…

openvpn

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-09-22T08:08:28+00:00

OpenVPN Follow one of the excellent guides from DigitalOcean (see below). Follow all the steps to the detail and everything will work, below are modifications I made for my personal requirements. Make sure you run commands as regular user and only elevate to root when told to do so.

openvpndigitalocean

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-05-12T09:27:51+00:00

How To Set Up an OpenVPN Server on Debian 9 How To Set Up an OpenVPN Server on Debian 9 Introduction Want to access the Internet safely and securely from your smartphone or laptop when connected to an untrusted network such as the WiFi of a hotel or coffee shop? A Virtual Private Network (VPN) allows you to traverse untrusted networks privately and securely as if you were on a private network. The traffic emerges from the VPN server and continues its journey to the destination.

pandora

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-09-25T16:38:20+00:00

Web Server Installation - Debian Stretch 9.6 Installation * Install basic system * Download latest Debian image * Attach the image iso file to the VM's optical drive * Run the installation and select XFCE and SSH to be installed along the way

samba

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-02-25T14:46:46+00:00

Samba File Server Installation * apt-get install samba samba-common cups smbclient * Add user to list of samba users: smbpasswd -a user * Check whether samba user has been created with: pdbedit -L -v * Change/verify the following entries in

setup

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-05-05T04:17:18+00:00

Debian 9 Setup System Startup The rc.local script is executed at boot time or when changing runlevels. Adding commands to the bottom of this script is an easy way to perform necessary tasks. Install in Debian 9 as below, add instructions to be executed to rc.local.

ssh

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-11-08T07:09:57+00:00

SSH Client and Server To login to any machine with SSH, you need to install the ssh server. The client is installed on Debian by default. Terminology used is “Server” for the remote machine to get access to, and “Host” for the local machine which needs access to a server. This guide was updated 8

static

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-11-02T06:11:35+00:00

Change static IP What to check and adjust if applicable if your static IP address and/or physical machine changes: * crontab settings * check certbot * DNS needs to be adjusted for all websites hosted on this machine

ufw

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-07-28T17:23:07+00:00

UFW Firewall * Install with: apt update sudo apt install ufw * Check preset profiles and allow necessary services as root: sudo ufw app list sudo ufw default allow outgoing sudo ufw allow OpenSSH sudo ufw allow "WWW Full" sudo ufw allow Samba sudo ufw allow 1194 # OpenVPN sudo ufw allow 3493 # NUT sudo ufw allow /tcp # FTP sudo ufw allow # FTP passive port range/tcp

virtualbox

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-09-08T07:23:43+00:00

VirtualBox Host * I recommend to install VirtualBox from the Oracle repository, as you get the latest version of VirtualBox * Add “virtualbox.list” to /etc/apt/sources.list.d sudo deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian stretch contrib