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When two Hetzner servers died at the same time
On May 12, 2026, two of my Arch Linux + LUKS servers at Hetzner became unreachable at the same moment. Both had been running for 4+ months without issue. Both had received the same
pacman -Syyuthe day before, but had stayed on the old kernel until the morning the websites stopped responding. I rebooted — SSH never came back.nmap -Pn -p 22showedfilteredfrom anywhere. No ping. No banner. The Hetzner Robot panel insisted the hardware was fine.Several hours went into hypotheses that turned out to be wrong:
- The
encryptsshinitcpio hook referencing a/usr/lib/initcpio/udev/11-dm-initramfs.rulesfile that no longer exists. Real bug, no boot impact — the initramfs rebuilds anyway. PermitRootLogin noinsshd_config. Real misconfiguration, fixed it, didn’t help. A refusing sshd showsclosed, notfiltered.- Predictable interface-naming drift after the systemd 260 upgrade. Patched the
.networkconfig to match by MAC. Useful hardening; not the cause. - Stale GRUB stage1 +
core.imgin the MBR. Arch never re-runsgrub-installafter agrubpackage upgrade. Refreshed it. Still filtered. - Kernel 7.0.5 regression. Downgraded to 6.18.3, the kernel that had run for 4 months. Still filtered. So the kernel itself wasn’t it either.
The clue was in the persistent journal: a single recorded boot from December 31 to May 12 10:13 UTC, and absolutely nothing after. Every reboot since the upgrade was failing before
systemd-journaldcould flush to disk — so the failure had to be in the initramfs, before the root filesystem was even mounted.What it almost certainly was
Hetzner Dedicated servers configure the initramfs network with
ip=dhcpon the kernel command line. That depends on Hetzner’s DHCP server replying to whatever request format the current kernel sends. Somewhere between kernel 6.18 / iproute2 6.18 and kernel 7.0 / iproute2 7.0, the request format changed enough that Hetzner’s DHCP stopped responding. Effects:- Old kernel at runtime kept the interface already configured (Phase A — 32 hours of healthy operation after the package upgrade).
- New kernel cold-boots, hits DHCP, never gets an IP, dropbear cannot listen, port 22 stays
filtered.
Hetzner’s own documentation has been quietly moving away from
ip=dhcptoward static IPv4 in the kernel command line. The fix is exactly that:GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="cryptdevice=/dev/md1:cryptroot ip=A.B.C.D::GATEWAY:255.255.255.255:hostname:eth0:none"One line in
/etc/default/grub,grub-mkconfig, reboot. No more dependency on Hetzner’s DHCP responding to whatever your current kernel sends.Why it matters for anyone running this stack
If you run Arch on Hetzner Dedicated with full-disk encryption and remote unlock via dropbear, the
ip=dhcpshipped byinstallimageis a latent bug. It can keep working for years and then break overnight, on every machine you have, after a routinepacman -Syyu. The static-IP version is what Hetzner now recommends and removes the entire dependency.Tooling
While debugging, I turned the whole rescue / chroot / diagnose / fix workflow into a Python CLI (
hal) — includinghal fix static-ip, which derives the static cmdline directly from your existingsystemd-networkd.networkfile:→ github.com/kevinveenbirkenbach/hetzner-arch-luks
Single command, idempotent, reversible (the original
#ArchLinux #bootFailure #debugging #DevOps #DHCP #Dropbear #fullDiskEncryption #GRUB #Hetzner #initramfs #kernelUpgrade #Linux #LUKS #mkinitcpio #pacman #postmortem #PythonCLI #serverOutage #sysadmin #systemdNetworkd/etc/default/grubis backed up to.hal-backup). If you’re on this stack, switch to static IP before the next kernel upgrade catches you. - The
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When two Hetzner servers died at the same time
On May 12, 2026, two of my Arch Linux + LUKS servers at Hetzner became unreachable at the same moment. Both had been running for 4+ months without issue. Both had received the same
pacman -Syyuthe day before, but had stayed on the old kernel until the morning the websites stopped responding. I rebooted — SSH never came back.nmap -Pn -p 22showedfilteredfrom anywhere. No ping. No banner. The Hetzner Robot panel insisted the hardware was fine.Several hours went into hypotheses that turned out to be wrong:
- The
encryptsshinitcpio hook referencing a/usr/lib/initcpio/udev/11-dm-initramfs.rulesfile that no longer exists. Real bug, no boot impact — the initramfs rebuilds anyway. PermitRootLogin noinsshd_config. Real misconfiguration, fixed it, didn’t help. A refusing sshd showsclosed, notfiltered.- Predictable interface-naming drift after the systemd 260 upgrade. Patched the
.networkconfig to match by MAC. Useful hardening; not the cause. - Stale GRUB stage1 +
core.imgin the MBR. Arch never re-runsgrub-installafter agrubpackage upgrade. Refreshed it. Still filtered. - Kernel 7.0.5 regression. Downgraded to 6.18.3, the kernel that had run for 4 months. Still filtered. So the kernel itself wasn’t it either.
The clue was in the persistent journal: a single recorded boot from December 31 to May 12 10:13 UTC, and absolutely nothing after. Every reboot since the upgrade was failing before
systemd-journaldcould flush to disk — so the failure had to be in the initramfs, before the root filesystem was even mounted.What it almost certainly was
Hetzner Dedicated servers configure the initramfs network with
ip=dhcpon the kernel command line. That depends on Hetzner’s DHCP server replying to whatever request format the current kernel sends. Somewhere between kernel 6.18 / iproute2 6.18 and kernel 7.0 / iproute2 7.0, the request format changed enough that Hetzner’s DHCP stopped responding. Effects:- Old kernel at runtime kept the interface already configured (Phase A — 32 hours of healthy operation after the package upgrade).
- New kernel cold-boots, hits DHCP, never gets an IP, dropbear cannot listen, port 22 stays
filtered.
Hetzner’s own documentation has been quietly moving away from
ip=dhcptoward static IPv4 in the kernel command line. The fix is exactly that:GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="cryptdevice=/dev/md1:cryptroot ip=A.B.C.D::GATEWAY:255.255.255.255:hostname:eth0:none"One line in
/etc/default/grub,grub-mkconfig, reboot. No more dependency on Hetzner’s DHCP responding to whatever your current kernel sends.Why it matters for anyone running this stack
If you run Arch on Hetzner Dedicated with full-disk encryption and remote unlock via dropbear, the
ip=dhcpshipped byinstallimageis a latent bug. It can keep working for years and then break overnight, on every machine you have, after a routinepacman -Syyu. The static-IP version is what Hetzner now recommends and removes the entire dependency.Tooling
While debugging, I turned the whole rescue / chroot / diagnose / fix workflow into a Python CLI (
hal) — includinghal fix static-ip, which derives the static cmdline directly from your existingsystemd-networkd.networkfile:→ github.com/kevinveenbirkenbach/hetzner-arch-luks
Single command, idempotent, reversible (the original
#ArchLinux #bootFailure #debugging #DevOps #DHCP #Dropbear #fullDiskEncryption #GRUB #Hetzner #initramfs #kernelUpgrade #Linux #LUKS #mkinitcpio #pacman #postmortem #PythonCLI #serverOutage #sysadmin #systemdNetworkd/etc/default/grubis backed up to.hal-backup). If you’re on this stack, switch to static IP before the next kernel upgrade catches you. - The
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When two Hetzner servers died at the same time
On May 12, 2026, two of my Arch Linux + LUKS servers at Hetzner became unreachable at the same moment. Both had been running for 4+ months without issue. Both had received the same
pacman -Syyuthe day before, but had stayed on the old kernel until the morning the websites stopped responding. I rebooted — SSH never came back.nmap -Pn -p 22showedfilteredfrom anywhere. No ping. No banner. The Hetzner Robot panel insisted the hardware was fine.Several hours went into hypotheses that turned out to be wrong:
- The
encryptsshinitcpio hook referencing a/usr/lib/initcpio/udev/11-dm-initramfs.rulesfile that no longer exists. Real bug, no boot impact — the initramfs rebuilds anyway. PermitRootLogin noinsshd_config. Real misconfiguration, fixed it, didn’t help. A refusing sshd showsclosed, notfiltered.- Predictable interface-naming drift after the systemd 260 upgrade. Patched the
.networkconfig to match by MAC. Useful hardening; not the cause. - Stale GRUB stage1 +
core.imgin the MBR. Arch never re-runsgrub-installafter agrubpackage upgrade. Refreshed it. Still filtered. - Kernel 7.0.5 regression. Downgraded to 6.18.3, the kernel that had run for 4 months. Still filtered. So the kernel itself wasn’t it either.
The clue was in the persistent journal: a single recorded boot from December 31 to May 12 10:13 UTC, and absolutely nothing after. Every reboot since the upgrade was failing before
systemd-journaldcould flush to disk — so the failure had to be in the initramfs, before the root filesystem was even mounted.What it almost certainly was
Hetzner Dedicated servers configure the initramfs network with
ip=dhcpon the kernel command line. That depends on Hetzner’s DHCP server replying to whatever request format the current kernel sends. Somewhere between kernel 6.18 / iproute2 6.18 and kernel 7.0 / iproute2 7.0, the request format changed enough that Hetzner’s DHCP stopped responding. Effects:- Old kernel at runtime kept the interface already configured (Phase A — 32 hours of healthy operation after the package upgrade).
- New kernel cold-boots, hits DHCP, never gets an IP, dropbear cannot listen, port 22 stays
filtered.
Hetzner’s own documentation has been quietly moving away from
ip=dhcptoward static IPv4 in the kernel command line. The fix is exactly that:GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="cryptdevice=/dev/md1:cryptroot ip=A.B.C.D::GATEWAY:255.255.255.255:hostname:eth0:none"One line in
/etc/default/grub,grub-mkconfig, reboot. No more dependency on Hetzner’s DHCP responding to whatever your current kernel sends.Why it matters for anyone running this stack
If you run Arch on Hetzner Dedicated with full-disk encryption and remote unlock via dropbear, the
ip=dhcpshipped byinstallimageis a latent bug. It can keep working for years and then break overnight, on every machine you have, after a routinepacman -Syyu. The static-IP version is what Hetzner now recommends and removes the entire dependency.Tooling
While debugging, I turned the whole rescue / chroot / diagnose / fix workflow into a Python CLI (
hal) — includinghal fix static-ip, which derives the static cmdline directly from your existingsystemd-networkd.networkfile:→ github.com/kevinveenbirkenbach/hetzner-arch-luks
Single command, idempotent, reversible (the original
#ArchLinux #bootFailure #debugging #DevOps #DHCP #Dropbear #fullDiskEncryption #GRUB #Hetzner #initramfs #kernelUpgrade #Linux #LUKS #mkinitcpio #pacman #postmortem #PythonCLI #serverOutage #sysadmin #systemdNetworkd/etc/default/grubis backed up to.hal-backup). If you’re on this stack, switch to static IP before the next kernel upgrade catches you. - The
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When two Hetzner servers died at the same time
On May 12, 2026, two of my Arch Linux + LUKS servers at Hetzner became unreachable at the same moment. Both had been running for 4+ months without issue. Both had received the same
pacman -Syyuthe day before, but had stayed on the old kernel until the morning the websites stopped responding. I rebooted — SSH never came back.nmap -Pn -p 22showedfilteredfrom anywhere. No ping. No banner. The Hetzner Robot panel insisted the hardware was fine.Several hours went into hypotheses that turned out to be wrong:
- The
encryptsshinitcpio hook referencing a/usr/lib/initcpio/udev/11-dm-initramfs.rulesfile that no longer exists. Real bug, no boot impact — the initramfs rebuilds anyway. PermitRootLogin noinsshd_config. Real misconfiguration, fixed it, didn’t help. A refusing sshd showsclosed, notfiltered.- Predictable interface-naming drift after the systemd 260 upgrade. Patched the
.networkconfig to match by MAC. Useful hardening; not the cause. - Stale GRUB stage1 +
core.imgin the MBR. Arch never re-runsgrub-installafter agrubpackage upgrade. Refreshed it. Still filtered. - Kernel 7.0.5 regression. Downgraded to 6.18.3, the kernel that had run for 4 months. Still filtered. So the kernel itself wasn’t it either.
The clue was in the persistent journal: a single recorded boot from December 31 to May 12 10:13 UTC, and absolutely nothing after. Every reboot since the upgrade was failing before
systemd-journaldcould flush to disk — so the failure had to be in the initramfs, before the root filesystem was even mounted.What it almost certainly was
Hetzner Dedicated servers configure the initramfs network with
ip=dhcpon the kernel command line. That depends on Hetzner’s DHCP server replying to whatever request format the current kernel sends. Somewhere between kernel 6.18 / iproute2 6.18 and kernel 7.0 / iproute2 7.0, the request format changed enough that Hetzner’s DHCP stopped responding. Effects:- Old kernel at runtime kept the interface already configured (Phase A — 32 hours of healthy operation after the package upgrade).
- New kernel cold-boots, hits DHCP, never gets an IP, dropbear cannot listen, port 22 stays
filtered.
Hetzner’s own documentation has been quietly moving away from
ip=dhcptoward static IPv4 in the kernel command line. The fix is exactly that:GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="cryptdevice=/dev/md1:cryptroot ip=A.B.C.D::GATEWAY:255.255.255.255:hostname:eth0:none"One line in
/etc/default/grub,grub-mkconfig, reboot. No more dependency on Hetzner’s DHCP responding to whatever your current kernel sends.Why it matters for anyone running this stack
If you run Arch on Hetzner Dedicated with full-disk encryption and remote unlock via dropbear, the
ip=dhcpshipped byinstallimageis a latent bug. It can keep working for years and then break overnight, on every machine you have, after a routinepacman -Syyu. The static-IP version is what Hetzner now recommends and removes the entire dependency.Tooling
While debugging, I turned the whole rescue / chroot / diagnose / fix workflow into a Python CLI (
hal) — includinghal fix static-ip, which derives the static cmdline directly from your existingsystemd-networkd.networkfile:→ github.com/kevinveenbirkenbach/hetzner-arch-luks
Single command, idempotent, reversible (the original
#ArchLinux #bootFailure #debugging #DevOps #DHCP #Dropbear #fullDiskEncryption #GRUB #Hetzner #initramfs #kernelUpgrade #Linux #LUKS #mkinitcpio #pacman #postmortem #PythonCLI #serverOutage #sysadmin #systemdNetworkd/etc/default/grubis backed up to.hal-backup). If you’re on this stack, switch to static IP before the next kernel upgrade catches you. - The
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When two Hetzner servers died at the same time
On May 12, 2026, two of my Arch Linux + LUKS servers at Hetzner became unreachable at the same moment. Both had been running for 4+ months without issue. Both had received the same
pacman -Syyuthe day before, but had stayed on the old kernel until the morning the websites stopped responding. I rebooted — SSH never came back.nmap -Pn -p 22showedfilteredfrom anywhere. No ping. No banner. The Hetzner Robot panel insisted the hardware was fine.Several hours went into hypotheses that turned out to be wrong:
- The
encryptsshinitcpio hook referencing a/usr/lib/initcpio/udev/11-dm-initramfs.rulesfile that no longer exists. Real bug, no boot impact — the initramfs rebuilds anyway. PermitRootLogin noinsshd_config. Real misconfiguration, fixed it, didn’t help. A refusing sshd showsclosed, notfiltered.- Predictable interface-naming drift after the systemd 260 upgrade. Patched the
.networkconfig to match by MAC. Useful hardening; not the cause. - Stale GRUB stage1 +
core.imgin the MBR. Arch never re-runsgrub-installafter agrubpackage upgrade. Refreshed it. Still filtered. - Kernel 7.0.5 regression. Downgraded to 6.18.3, the kernel that had run for 4 months. Still filtered. So the kernel itself wasn’t it either.
The clue was in the persistent journal: a single recorded boot from December 31 to May 12 10:13 UTC, and absolutely nothing after. Every reboot since the upgrade was failing before
systemd-journaldcould flush to disk — so the failure had to be in the initramfs, before the root filesystem was even mounted.What it almost certainly was
Hetzner Dedicated servers configure the initramfs network with
ip=dhcpon the kernel command line. That depends on Hetzner’s DHCP server replying to whatever request format the current kernel sends. Somewhere between kernel 6.18 / iproute2 6.18 and kernel 7.0 / iproute2 7.0, the request format changed enough that Hetzner’s DHCP stopped responding. Effects:- Old kernel at runtime kept the interface already configured (Phase A — 32 hours of healthy operation after the package upgrade).
- New kernel cold-boots, hits DHCP, never gets an IP, dropbear cannot listen, port 22 stays
filtered.
Hetzner’s own documentation has been quietly moving away from
ip=dhcptoward static IPv4 in the kernel command line. The fix is exactly that:GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="cryptdevice=/dev/md1:cryptroot ip=A.B.C.D::GATEWAY:255.255.255.255:hostname:eth0:none"One line in
/etc/default/grub,grub-mkconfig, reboot. No more dependency on Hetzner’s DHCP responding to whatever your current kernel sends.Why it matters for anyone running this stack
If you run Arch on Hetzner Dedicated with full-disk encryption and remote unlock via dropbear, the
ip=dhcpshipped byinstallimageis a latent bug. It can keep working for years and then break overnight, on every machine you have, after a routinepacman -Syyu. The static-IP version is what Hetzner now recommends and removes the entire dependency.Tooling
While debugging, I turned the whole rescue / chroot / diagnose / fix workflow into a Python CLI (
hal) — includinghal fix static-ip, which derives the static cmdline directly from your existingsystemd-networkd.networkfile:→ github.com/kevinveenbirkenbach/hetzner-arch-luks
Single command, idempotent, reversible (the original
#ArchLinux #bootFailure #debugging #DevOps #DHCP #Dropbear #fullDiskEncryption #GRUB #Hetzner #initramfs #kernelUpgrade #Linux #LUKS #mkinitcpio #pacman #postmortem #PythonCLI #serverOutage #sysadmin #systemdNetworkd/etc/default/grubis backed up to.hal-backup). If you’re on this stack, switch to static IP before the next kernel upgrade catches you. - The
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Worse still, I have heard that Chinese pandas are at practice falling out of trees. You just have to go onto YouTube or similar and there’s lots of seemingly funny videos of them doing this.
In reality they’re not as dumb as they look and they have been inspired by the Australian drop bear. Imagine one tonne of panda landing on from a height of ten or so metres! 😩😱😱
So far the Chinese ambassador has been too polite to say anything to us about it but it looks like we won’t be getting any more pandas from China in the near future.
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Worse still, I have heard that Chinese pandas are at practice falling out of trees. You just have to go onto YouTube or similar and there’s lots of seemingly funny videos of them doing this.
In reality they’re not as dumb as they look and they have been inspired by the Australian drop bear. Imagine one tonne of panda landing on from a height of ten or so metres! 😩😱😱
So far the Chinese ambassador has been too polite to say anything to us about it but it looks like we won’t be getting any more pandas from China in the near future.
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Worse still, I have heard that Chinese pandas are at practice falling out of trees. You just have to go onto YouTube or similar and there’s lots of seemingly funny videos of them doing this.
In reality they’re not as dumb as they look and they have been inspired by the Australian drop bear. Imagine one tonne of panda landing on from a height of ten or so metres! 😩😱😱
So far the Chinese ambassador has been too polite to say anything to us about it but it looks like we won’t be getting any more pandas from China in the near future.
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Worse still, I have heard that Chinese pandas are at practice falling out of trees. You just have to go onto YouTube or similar and there’s lots of seemingly funny videos of them doing this.
In reality they’re not as dumb as they look and they have been inspired by the Australian drop bear. Imagine one tonne of panda landing on from a height of ten or so metres! 😩😱😱
So far the Chinese ambassador has been too polite to say anything to us about it but it looks like we won’t be getting any more pandas from China in the near future.
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Worse still, I have heard that Chinese pandas are at practice falling out of trees. You just have to go onto YouTube or similar and there’s lots of seemingly funny videos of them doing this.
In reality they’re not as dumb as they look and they have been inspired by the Australian drop bear. Imagine one tonne of panda landing on from a height of ten or so metres! 😩😱😱
So far the Chinese ambassador has been too polite to say anything to us about it but it looks like we won’t be getting any more pandas from China in the near future.
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My favourite Australian character trait is the willingness to jump in on a lie in order to trick someone (in good fun).
This is best shown by dropbears*, where any Aussie will happily join in on sharing how terrifying they are, how weird it is that no one outside Aus knows about them, the importance of eating vegemite as a deterrent, etc.
I love that my MPIC friends have gotten fully on board with this, happily rabbiting on about dropbears and their risks. It warms my heart and makes me feel like home!
* this is not to imply that dropbears are not real. Of course they are.
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My favourite Australian character trait is the willingness to jump in on a lie in order to trick someone (in good fun).
This is best shown by dropbears*, where any Aussie will happily join in on sharing how terrifying they are, how weird it is that no one outside Aus knows about them, the importance of eating vegemite as a deterrent, etc.
I love that my MPIC friends have gotten fully on board with this, happily rabbiting on about dropbears and their risks. It warms my heart and makes me feel like home!
* this is not to imply that dropbears are not real. Of course they are.
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My favourite Australian character trait is the willingness to jump in on a lie in order to trick someone (in good fun).
This is best shown by dropbears*, where any Aussie will happily join in on sharing how terrifying they are, how weird it is that no one outside Aus knows about them, the importance of eating vegemite as a deterrent, etc.
I love that my MPIC friends have gotten fully on board with this, happily rabbiting on about dropbears and their risks. It warms my heart and makes me feel like home!
* this is not to imply that dropbears are not real. Of course they are.
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My favourite Australian character trait is the willingness to jump in on a lie in order to trick someone (in good fun).
This is best shown by dropbears*, where any Aussie will happily join in on sharing how terrifying they are, how weird it is that no one outside Aus knows about them, the importance of eating vegemite as a deterrent, etc.
I love that my MPIC friends have gotten fully on board with this, happily rabbiting on about dropbears and their risks. It warms my heart and makes me feel like home!
* this is not to imply that dropbears are not real. Of course they are.
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My favourite Australian character trait is the willingness to jump in on a lie in order to trick someone (in good fun).
This is best shown by dropbears*, where any Aussie will happily join in on sharing how terrifying they are, how weird it is that no one outside Aus knows about them, the importance of eating vegemite as a deterrent, etc.
I love that my MPIC friends have gotten fully on board with this, happily rabbiting on about dropbears and their risks. It warms my heart and makes me feel like home!
* this is not to imply that dropbears are not real. Of course they are.
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Bonus: I can wake up the desktop through Home Assistant.
And with VPN through Wireguard I then have access to my desktop system, its files and services that I need in rare cases.
I used this article
https://www.cyberciti.biz/security/how-to-unlock-luks-using-dropbear-ssh-keys-remotely-in-linux/ from [email protected] . Thank you.2/2
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Bonus: I can wake up the desktop through Home Assistant.
And with VPN through Wireguard I then have access to my desktop system, its files and services that I need in rare cases.
I used this article
https://www.cyberciti.biz/security/how-to-unlock-luks-using-dropbear-ssh-keys-remotely-in-linux/ from [email protected] . Thank you.2/n
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Bonus: I can wake up the desktop through Home Assistant.
And with VPN through Wireguard I then have access to my desktop system, its files and services that I need in rare cases.
I used this article
https://www.cyberciti.biz/security/how-to-unlock-luks-using-dropbear-ssh-keys-remotely-in-linux/ from [email protected] . Thank you.2/2
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Bonus: I can wake up the desktop through Home Assistant.
And with VPN through Wireguard I then have access to my desktop system, its files and services that I need in rare cases.
I used this article
https://www.cyberciti.biz/security/how-to-unlock-luks-using-dropbear-ssh-keys-remotely-in-linux/ from [email protected] . Thank you.2/n
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Bonus: I can wake up the desktop through Home Assistant.
And with VPN through Wireguard I then have access to my desktop system, its files and services that I need in rare cases.
I used this article
https://www.cyberciti.biz/security/how-to-unlock-luks-using-dropbear-ssh-keys-remotely-in-linux/ from [email protected] . Thank you.2/2
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Today's desktop computer challenge: For the case I need access to my home desktop from remote, I trigger boot through wake on LAN and then remotely unlock the encrypted hard disks through SSH.
The challenge: Two encrypted hard disks. Solution: For the second hard drive add a key file located on the first hard disk as additional slot through cryptsetup, update the configuration in `/etc/crypttab`. Done.
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Today's desktop computer challenge: For the case I need access to my home desktop from remote, I trigger boot through wake on LAN and then remotely unlock the encrypted hard disks through SSH.
The challenge: Two encrypted hard disks. Solution: For the second hard drive add a key file located on the first hard disk as additional slot through cryptsetup, update the configuration in `/etc/crypttab`. Done.
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Today's desktop computer challenge: For the case I need access to my home desktop from remote, I trigger boot through wake on LAN and then remotely unlock the encrypted hard disks through SSH.
The challenge: Two encrypted hard disks. Solution: For the second hard drive add a key file located on the first hard disk as additional slot through cryptsetup, update the configuration in `/etc/crypttab`. Done.
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Today's desktop computer challenge: For the case I need access to my home desktop from remote, I trigger boot through wake on LAN and then remotely unlock the encrypted hard disks through SSH.
The challenge: Two encrypted hard disks. Solution: For the second hard drive add a key file located on the first hard disk as additional slot through cryptsetup, update the configuration in `/etc/crypttab`. Done.
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Today's desktop computer challenge: For the case I need access to my home desktop from remote, I trigger boot through wake on LAN and then remotely unlock the encrypted hard disks through SSH.
The challenge: Two encrypted hard disks. Solution: For the second hard drive add a key file located on the first hard disk as additional slot through cryptsetup, update the configuration in `/etc/crypttab`. Done.
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TIL if you Google for “drop bear” there’s a little #EasterEgg
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TIL if you Google for “drop bear” there’s a little #EasterEgg
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TIL if you Google for “drop bear” there’s a little #EasterEgg
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TIL if you Google for “drop bear” there’s a little #EasterEgg
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#SSH-Server #Dropbear erlaubt Rechteausweitung | Security https://www.heise.de/news/SSH-Server-Dropbear-erlaubt-Rechteausweitung-11119207.html #Patchday #OpenWRT
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#SSH-Server #Dropbear erlaubt Rechteausweitung | Security https://www.heise.de/news/SSH-Server-Dropbear-erlaubt-Rechteausweitung-11119207.html #Patchday #OpenWRT
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#SSH-Server #Dropbear erlaubt Rechteausweitung | Security https://www.heise.de/news/SSH-Server-Dropbear-erlaubt-Rechteausweitung-11119207.html #Patchday #OpenWRT
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#SSH-Server #Dropbear erlaubt Rechteausweitung | Security https://www.heise.de/news/SSH-Server-Dropbear-erlaubt-Rechteausweitung-11119207.html #Patchday #OpenWRT
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As most e.g. #OpenWRT devices use #dropbear just for root anyway and not for other users, this should not be critical issue for most installations in the real world, right? Or do I miss something?
https://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/dropbear/2025q4/002390.html
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As most e.g. #OpenWRT devices use #dropbear just for root anyway and not for other users, this should not be critical issue for most installations in the real world, right? Or do I miss something?
https://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/dropbear/2025q4/002390.html
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As most e.g. #OpenWRT devices use #dropbear just for root anyway and not for other users, this should not be critical issue for most installations in the real world, right? Or do I miss something?
https://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/dropbear/2025q4/002390.html
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As most e.g. #OpenWRT devices use #dropbear just for root anyway and not for other users, this should not be critical issue for most installations in the real world, right? Or do I miss something?
https://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/dropbear/2025q4/002390.html
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As most e.g. #OpenWRT devices use #dropbear just for root anyway and not for other users, this should not be critical issue for most installations in the real world, right? Or do I miss something?
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#Dropbear (Date TBC) 🐨
A group of US tourists on a cheap Aussie outback tour discover the scam's fake dropbear attack has led them into the lair of a real, flesh-hungry koala king and his rabid army.
#CreatureFeature #FilmsWithBite #FilmMastodon 📽️ 🎬 -
#Dropbear (Date TBC) 🐨
A group of US tourists on a cheap Aussie outback tour discover the scam's fake dropbear attack has led them into the lair of a real, flesh-hungry koala king and his rabid army.
#CreatureFeature #FilmsWithBite #FilmMastodon 📽️ 🎬 -
#Dropbear (Date TBC) 🐨
A group of US tourists on a cheap Aussie outback tour discover the scam's fake dropbear attack has led them into the lair of a real, flesh-hungry koala king and his rabid army.
#CreatureFeature #FilmsWithBite #FilmMastodon 📽️ 🎬 -
#Dropbear (Date TBC) 🐨
A group of US tourists on a cheap Aussie outback tour discover the scam's fake dropbear attack has led them into the lair of a real, flesh-hungry koala king and his rabid army.
#CreatureFeature #FilmsWithBite #FilmMastodon 📽️ 🎬 -
#Dropbear (Date TBC) 🐨
A group of US tourists on a cheap Aussie outback tour discover the scam's fake dropbear attack has led them into the lair of a real, flesh-hungry koala king and his rabid army.
#CreatureFeature #FilmsWithBite #FilmMastodon 📽️ 🎬 -
Dropbear (2025) Trailer
#horror – #Trailers – #horrormovies – #Dropbear – @ITNFILMS – A group of unsuspecting US tourists signs up for a low-budget Aussie outback tour run by a pair of incompetent grifters. But when their fake “koala attack” stunt goes horribly wrong, they stumble into the hunting grounds of a real, flesh-hungry koala king and his […]
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Dropbear (2025) Trailer
#horror – #Trailers – #horrormovies – #Dropbear – @ITNFILMS – A group of unsuspecting US tourists signs up for a low-budget Aussie outback tour run by a pair of incompetent grifters. But when their fake “koala attack” stunt goes horribly wrong, they stumble into the hunting grounds of a real, flesh-hungry koala king and his […]