<![CDATA[Cloudron as a "domain controller" for a digital sovereign linux environment]]>Hi everyone,

inspired by the messaging on https://s42.cloud/ I was playing around yesterday evening. It started with step-ca to verify ssh logins but then evolved into a sort of domain controller for linux systems (with thanks to systemd to https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd-userdbd.service.html).

As bit more detailed pitch and current functionality is documented at https://git.9wd.eu/apps/cloudron-access/src/branch/main/PITCH.md

What do other Cloudron users think? Next to having single sign on for web applications what do you use to manage your servers and who should be able to login? Do you see a value in making something like this more standardised and easier to use?

Source is at https://git.9wd.eu/apps/cloudron-access. It can be installed as a community app with https://git.9wd.eu/apps/cloudron-access/raw/branch/release/CloudronVersions.json

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/16227/cloudron-as-a-domain-controller-for-a-digital-sovereign-linux-environmentRSS for NodeTue, 03 Nov 2026 18:25:45 GMTSun, 01 Nov 2026 08:12:30 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Cloudron as a "domain controller" for a digital sovereign linux environment on Mon, 02 Nov 2026 12:39:35 GMT]]>@fbartels @robi S42 is a thought in progress, not a real product (yet) 🙂 Given that we are writing some of these apps already (as @nebulon mentioned here), we are ruminating if we should make a separate office/workspace product for the self-hosted space.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/132285https://forum.cloudron.io/post/132285Mon, 02 Nov 2026 12:39:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cloudron as a "domain controller" for a digital sovereign linux environment on Sun, 01 Nov 2026 21:22:34 GMT]]>@fbartels Oh I see, I think it's their attempt on positioning Cubby as a replacement for NextCloud.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/132244https://forum.cloudron.io/post/132244Sun, 01 Nov 2026 21:22:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cloudron as a "domain controller" for a digital sovereign linux environment on Sun, 01 Nov 2026 18:44:13 GMT]]>@robi that link was posted here somewhere a while ago, not sure if the team really acknowledged it. The website also seems still a work in progress, but includes the cubby, calendar, email apps that have been released.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/132238https://forum.cloudron.io/post/132238Sun, 01 Nov 2026 18:44:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cloudron as a "domain controller" for a digital sovereign linux environment on Sun, 01 Nov 2026 18:11:32 GMT]]>@fbartels What's S42? Sounds like another version of Cloudron by the same team.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/132233https://forum.cloudron.io/post/132233Sun, 01 Nov 2026 18:11:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cloudron as a "domain controller" for a digital sovereign linux environment on Sun, 01 Nov 2026 11:59:15 GMT]]>I don't have an immediate need for anything like this myself but it sounds useful. Made me think of the requirement for listing Mastodon servers on the official directory https://joinmastodon.org/servers , one of which is that at least 3 people have access to the server (actually, I've either mis-remembered, or it's changed, seems it's just at least one other person as per https://joinmastodon.org/covenant ). This could be one easy way to facilitate that.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/132219https://forum.cloudron.io/post/132219Sun, 01 Nov 2026 11:59:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cloudron as a "domain controller" for a digital sovereign linux environment on Sun, 01 Nov 2026 10:36:03 GMT]]>Need to get my head around but sounds very interesting 👍

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