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Comment on How to Connect to Your FreeNAS Server via SSH Without A Password; Password Free Logins via Public Key Authentication by Roger Heathcote

Roger Heathcote — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:09:00 +0000

Thanks, very helpful article.

It bears mentioning that to benefit from the improved security of using certificate based authentication you need to go into the web GUI to Services | SSH and untick “Enable keyboard-interactive authentication.”

If you don’t disable password based logins you will have improved convenience but no better security. Technically it may be even worse as there are now two attack vectors!

Also it is worth changing the default port if only as to spare your logs the constant barrage of failed brute force attempts. Strangely the command line argument for specifying a port is different between ssh (-p) and scp (-P), both choke if the wrong case is used, lord knows why that’s how it is on my Ubuntu box!

Also, I found that I needed to manually create the users “.ssh folder” and “authorized_keys” file manually before the “cat ~/id_rsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys” line would work.

Anyway, thanks again & keep up the good work

Roger.

Comment on FreeNAS 0.8 Roadmap by Massimo

Massimo — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:41:14 +0000

DJango!? … why Django? … Isn’t it more heavy?
I mean I would like to listen some reason behind this decision.

Thanks!

Comment on Learning FreeNAS Book by Alan

Alan — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:04:29 +0000

Is there an update with ZFS concepts?

Thanks,

Comment on FreeNAS 0.8 Roadmap by Do It Yourself NAS » Archive » FreeNAS 0.8 Roadmap

Do It Yourself NAS » Archive » FreeNAS 0.8 Roadmap — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:48:21 +0000

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Comment on FreeNAS 0.7.1 Released by kingcharles

kingcharles — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:15:50 +0000

It is listed under the nightly builds, so to me it does not appear to be a stable release.
Cheers

Comment on FreeNAS and ESX 3.5 Performance by Ben Conrad

Ben Conrad — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:05:26 +0000

The E1000 change doubled read and write performance for me. Good enough to keep my lab going. Going to try with OpenFiler as well.

Ben

Comment on Rumours of FreeNAS’ Death Greatly Exaggerated by aka-none

aka-none — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 01:50:03 +0000

WOW!This is GREAT news.

I’ve been holding back on the ZFS as I didn’t want to commit to it, but this will be sweet.

Comment on FreeNAS 0.8 to Use Linux not FreeBSD by David

David — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:41:18 +0000

Nice post, I agree, no ZFS = not really an option for a good working NAS.
I’ve got FreeNAS running, version .7 and if it wasn’t for ZFS I probably would run a stock opensolaris install.
FreeNAS is an excellent product and the Web Gui is first class and easy to use, but without ZFS? No thanks.

Comment on FreeNAS 0.8 to Use Linux not FreeBSD by hari wibowo

hari wibowo — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:41:40 +0000

awesome it is a super info
txs alot my bro

Comment on FAQ by E Hepler

E Hepler — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:45:15 +0000

@Eric Lightbody

If you setup 3 drives of 2×1TB and 1×640GB I think you’ll get a raid system built on 3 drives using 3×640GB with no failover. I’d wait till you get 2 additional 1TB drives, and make the array 4×1TB. Otherwise the Raid is pretty ineffective.