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What self hosting feels like (It's painful, please help 🥲) (feddit.uk)

submitted 2 years ago by Flax_vert@feddit.uk to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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[–] iamjackflack@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yes because having a user remember to do something is a great line of defense, better than encrypting it from the get go. It should just be encrypted in the file.

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[–] gsfraley@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago*

I think that's the way both Splunk and JFrog work -- you generate or enter a password into the key field in a YAML file somewhere, start the service, and next time you come back the field's been encrypted.

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[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk [S] 1 point 2 years ago

The step tells you to remove it after at least

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