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- A freshly installed FreedomBox can be hijacked by a third party and an admin account can be created which can be used to inject malware or simply take over the instance. Password protecting the firstboot step is a good way to avoid this. A secret will be displayed to the user as soon as the Plinth package is installed, which they have to enter during firstboot welcome step. Also, writing this to a file in plinth's home in case the user loses it. - This protection is not applicable for images built by freedom-maker and for Amazon Machine Images. Signed-off-by: Joseph Nuthalapati <njoseph@thoughtworks.com> Reviewed-by: James Valleroy <jvalleroy@mailbox.org>
FreedomBox Service (Plinth)
The core functionality and web front-end of FreedomBox.
Description
FreedomBox is a community project to develop, design and promote personal servers running free software for private, personal communications. It is a networking appliance designed to allow interfacing with the rest of the Internet under conditions of protected privacy and data security. It hosts applications such as blog, wiki, website, social network, email, web proxy and a Tor relay, on a device that can replace your Wi-Fi router, so that your data stays with you.
This module, called FreedomBox Service and also know as Plinth, is the core functionality and web interface to the functions of the FreedomBox. It is extensible and provides various applications of FreedomBox as modules. Each module or application provides simplified user interface to control the underlying functionality. As FreedomBox can act as a wireless router, it is possible to configure networking. It also allows configuration of basic system parameters such as time zone, hostname and automatic upgrades.
You can find more information about FreedomBox Service (Plinth) on the Plinth Wiki page, the FreedomBox Wiki and the FreedomBox Manual.
Getting Started
See the INSTALL.md file for additional details and dependencies. To install run:
$ sudo python3 setup.py install
Run FreedomBox Service (Plinth) on the local system with:
$ sudo plinth
Contributing
See the HACKING file for contributing to FreedomBox Service (Plinth).
Localization
