SSH Certificate signing

I’ve encountered a problem migrating from Fedora to Arch which ends up being about ssh and openssh certificates. I look back and discover that I never posted anything about my movement toward openssh certificates. Curious because I wrote a lengthy document about it (because of my leaky brain – not because I am any kind of authority on it).

I will probably go back and write a post about it, and back date it. But now a problem has arisen. Rather than explain, let the boys at openssh speak for themselves, in the release notes for openssh 8.2:

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Percona Toolkit

This is to help me remember how to get percona toolkit, so that I can get the grants information out of the mysql database – the database in mysql which keeps tracks of users, databases, and (in particular) grants, i.e. permissions.

I originally dug this up for use when I was migrating tarragon. But now I am working on migrating oregano from fedora to arch, and I will have to transfer the databases. I have finally learned (I admit I am slow) that one cannot expect to be able to move the database directory even from one release to another, let alone from one distribution to another. The only way to do this properly is to dump the databases, reinstall mariadb/mysql in the new place, and set it up, and then reimport the dumped databases.

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Moving Oregano to arch

It is by no means certain that I will succeed with this effort, but I’m spending some time trying to get Oregano up on Arch.

The first step was just to get Arch booted up on oregano. My previous installation on a laptop didn’t involve an encrypted root, didn’t have raid arrays, didn’t have separate filesystems for things like /home and /var, didn’t run a web server, etc., so the first challenge is to get the system up with all that stuff.

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