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How to reboot headless server with passphrase?

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Mar 15, 20269425 views
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I have an old desktop computer that I want to start using as a headless server. With a monitor and a screen attached, I installed Ubuntu Server edition with encrypted LVM on the machine. After installation I rebooted and, still with the monitor and keyboard attached, filled out the passphrase and w…

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You can do so by installing an SSH server into your initramfs. One easy possibility is to use early-ssh. It installs a Dropbear SSH server right into your initramfs. With that server running you can log into your server before the root fs mount and …

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