sudo Touch ID on MacBook

To allow TouchID on your Mac to authenticate you for sudo access instead of a password you need to do the following. * Open Terminal * Switch to the root user with sudo su - * Edit the /etc/pam.d/sudo file with a command-line editor such as nano * The contents of…

How to setup Automatic Updates on Debian

Introduction One central part of keeping Linux servers secure is installing security updates on time. This is one of the critical tasks for Linux admins to make the system up-to-date. In addition, it keeps your system more stable and secure. Therefore, as a system administrator, regularly updating the servers and…

File Browser

Introduction File Browser is an open-source, self-hosted file browser. The Docker Compose File --- services: filebrowser: image: docker.io/filebrowser/filebrowser:latest container_name: filebrowser hostname: filebrowser restart: unless-stopped security_opt: - no-new-privileges:true environment: - TZ=Europe/Stockholm - PUID=1000 - PGID=1000 ports: - 8080:8080/tcp…

Configuring the Zigbee2MQTT Docker container for use with Home Assistant

Introduction Zigbee is a standards-based wireless technology developed to enable low-cost, low-power wireless machine-to-machine (M2M) and internet of things (IoT) networks. Zigbee is for low-data rate, low-power applications and is an open standard. This, theoretically, enables the mixing of implementations from different manufacturers, but in practice, Zigbee products have been…

Enable sudo without a password

edit /etc/sudoers sudo visudo Then find the admin group permission section: %admin ALL = (ALL) ALL %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL Change to add NOPASSWD: %admin ALL = (ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL user ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL Be aware that removing the password requirement to use sudo eliminates a level of security. If…

Dozzle

Introduction Dozzle is open-sourced project sponsored by Docker OSS. It is a log viewer designed to simplify the process of monitoring and debugging containers. It is a lightweight, web-based application that provides real-time log streaming, filtering, and searching capabilities through an intuitive user interface. The Docker Compose File --- services:…

Accessing USB Devices from Docker Containers

One of the common problems people have when they use Home Assistant Container is getting Home Assistant to recognise USB devices that you have plugged into the host computer, usually things like Zigbee or Z-Wave USB dongles. To make this work you need to map the USB stick from the…