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Q&A Looking for a way to sync dotfile content between different machines without introducing security issues

A first quick solution I hacked up was to sync via NAS. Synology NAS served as a synchro point. I synced via git repo. etckeeper was used to sync machine config, pass was used to sync passwords. S...

posted 6mo ago by LAFK‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar LAFK‭ · 2023-11-12T07:40:53Z (6 months ago)
A first quick solution I hacked up was to sync via NAS. Synology NAS served as a synchro point. I synced via git repo. `etckeeper` was used to sync machine config, `pass` was used to sync passwords.

So, for me it was to use git commands. 

Pass: https://www.passwordstore.org/
ArchWiki on it: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pass

Etckeeper: https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/tools-etckeeper
ArchWiki on it: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Etckeeper


Storage of very important files in git, but encrypted: git secret (singular) and git secrets (plural).
Tool repo: https://github.com/sobolevn/git-secret
Secrets, plural, tool repo: https://github.com/awslabs/git-secrets

`git secret` encrypts a file with credentials and allows you to store only the encrypted one, along with info who can decrypt the file.

`git secrets` prevents you from submitting files by accident.