jacobblock

FreeNAS

I started using FreeNAS in August 2013. It is fantastic piece of software and I have been really impressed by the upgrades just in the few months I've been using it. It looks like they recently went to a plugin system as of version 9 to make installing software easier for end users. I've ran into several issues related to plugins and user + group permissions so I decided to just use the available FreeBSD port system. After fiddling for a few days (now turned into months) I believe I have created something helpful for the community and anyone interested in picking up the port system. The sandbox nature of FreeNAS's jail system is especially helpful for playing around without having any consequence on your core system.

Here are straight-forward instructions to setting up a bunch of different software on FreeNAS. If you make a terrible error, just throw up another plugin sandbox and repeat.

ToC

vrillusions

Introduction

This is how to create a gpg key without any user interaction or password. This can be used in cases where the primary goal is to secure the data in transit but the gpg key can/must be stored locally without a password. An example of this is the hiera-gpg plugin which doesn't support passwords.

The below genkey-batch file will use the default which currently are RSA/RSA and 2048 bit length. See the reference link to set this to something else.

References