SSL/https access feature for Pi-Star?

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K6JM
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SSL/https access feature for Pi-Star?

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In 2018, a thread was posted here called SSL Support. It was a feature request asking the Pi-Star Dashboard to support SSL encrypted access.

At the time, Pi-Star was at version 3.x and 4.x was being developed. Andy agreed this was a useful request and that he would look into it once 4.x was available. As far as I know, however, v 4.x does not yet provide SSL support for the Dashboard pages.

Is this feature request still on the table?

Jim - K6JM

PS I have manually added SSL to Apache and Nginx web servers, but I prefer not to fool with Pi-Star. I want things as simple as possible and that any changes survive Pi-Star updates.

My interest is using an MMDVM modem with Pi-Star for our club's digital voice repeater. I want to expose the Dashboard itself to the external internet so anyone can view it, and also allow club Admins to log onto the Configuration-Admin-Expert pages. Currently, using http access, the only protection of those pages is the Pi-Star password, and that is unencrypted. Also, the major browsers are increasingly complaining about web pages that do not use SSL.

I have read the Ultimate remote dashboard access thread -- The free ZeroTier account now allows up to 50 network users, and our club would probably only have 3 or 4, so ZeroTier could be used to protect the Pi-Star Config-Admin-Expert pages. But I'd still like to use SSH on the main Dashboard page and allow everyone access to it via SSL, ideally via a configuration feature in Pi-Star itself.
K6JM
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Re: SSL/https access feature for Pi-Star?

Post by K6JM »

Could this be a configuration choice, so PiZero users could choose not to configure for SSL, and others using faster RPi's could?

I run Pi-Star on 3 PiZero hotspots, also on 1 Pi 3B+ modem/analog radio. I agree on the PiZero, I would not want to slow down the system. On high-powered hotspots or repeaters, I am willing to use a 3B+ or Pi4....

Jim - K6JM
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