Welcome to Root101

System Administration Journals

Latest Posts

View All Posts →

Nextcloud Highly Available Cluster Notes

Nextcloud is an on premise Dropbox alternative. It's a very capable software with great features. When you look at the documentation, there is a great deal of information about installation. But if you are after a highly available cluster, documentation vanishes, and you get redirected to the paid support site.

Nextcloud High Availability

Recovering Hashes without Dozens of GPUs

Nowadays, people often think hash cracking is about hardware power. Hash cracking is about processing information; it is about thinking about the keyspace and finding statistical patterns.

hashcat Security

Step by Step LDAP Configuration Guide For Jitsi Meet

Jitsi is an open-source video conferencing solution. In the days of COVID19, there a lot of demand for such solutions. Organizations often need to secure their installation with LDAP authentication.

Jitsi Docker

GlusterFS with Multipath Devices

Opensource software-defined storage systems are becoming to be the next big thing. Instead of buying an expensive storage appliance, you can just put together a few bare-metal servers and stack them with disks and voila. You have a working enterprise-grade storage unit that you can scale as you wish.

GlusterFS Storage

Automated Operation System Installation with Kickstart

After every clean anaconda based OS install, there is a single file under the /root/ , named anaconda-ks.cfg. Ever wondered what is that about? Kickstart is a config file format designed to automate the installation of an operating system with anaconda installer.

Linux Automation