Renew the Let’s Encrypt certificate for Synology using SSH

       52 words, 1 minutes

When for some reasons, the Let’s Encrypt certificate has not be renewed on your Synology and those bloody stupid Web browsers won’t let you connect to the DSM for “Security Reasons”, you can still count on SSH to solve the problem.

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Protect the ESXi virtual machines with OpenBSD

       813 words, 4 minutes

I own a server at Online.net which now runs VMware ESXi free edition. The thing is VMs have to access the Wild Wild Web and provide public services while still being protected. So let’s configure OpenBSD to do so.

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Enforce IP filtering on ESXi

       475 words, 3 minutes

My ESXi is provided by Online.net and accessible from Internet. Reading the VMware documentation, one can see: ESXi includes a firewall that is enabled by default. At installation time, the ESXi firewall is configured to block incoming and outgoing traffic, except traffic for services that are enabled in the host’s security profile. But the default security profile is way too loose! So here’s how to harden it a bit.

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Upgrade VMware ESXi 6.5 to 6.7 using the esxcli console tool

       410 words, 2 minutes

I decided to run VMware ESXi on my Online/Scaleway Start-2-L server. Using the online.net installer, you can “only” get ESXi 6.5.0d (64BITS). So here’s how to upgrade to 6.7.

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syspatch(8) and /tmp sizing

       170 words, 1 minutes

On my new OpenBSD servers, I decided to use memory filesystem for /tmp. After looking at old servers usage, I decided that 64M of memory space would be enough. # grep mfs /etc/fstab swap /tmp mfs rw,nodev,nosuid,-s=64m 0 0 And that seemed well sized. Until I ran syspatch(8) and got a whole bunch of errors:

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