ComplicatedWindowsWorld

Did you know that SSH can match “things”? I sure didn’t!

Tonight I wanted to grant SSH access to a service account that didn’t have a home directory, but was required to use keyauth. After a bit of research on the internet I added a new config file to /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d.

Match Group homeless
  AuthorizedKeysFile /etc/ssh/authorized-keys/%u

%u automatically resolves to the current user.

I also needed to create the group homeless and add my service account to it. And, of course, I also needed to add the public key to the referenced file above. (So, if your service account is called pinkie, you’ll need to add the key to
/etc/ssh/authorized-keys/pinkie).

Maybe I can make writing a habit by simply doing it once a day. But the process of publishing would need to be simpler.

I still struggle with a hybrid world. Hugo is currently only running on my windows workstation and rysnc only works on my WSL.

I could try to debug my hugo installation on WSL, but I am too lazy to do that. I could also use robocopy instead of rsync, but I don’t want to go that way either (working with ssh keys was a bit of a pain).

Tonight I finally finished tinkering with a hugo theme and uploaded everything to my server.

The current process isn’t pretty but it works 😅 Once I have a new post I need to follow these steps:

• Empty hugos local public folder
• Render new html files with the simple hugo command
• rsync everything to my server with rsync -avz --delete public/ user@server:/path/to/html/

Somehow I broke my hugo installation on the WSL. So now I have to run the hugo rendering command in PowerShell but still use WSL for the rsync command, since that is never going to be available in Windows (rsync support - out of scope).