

For everybody commenting on passwords manager, I’ve been using one for years now and I feel this so bad. My company has a password policy of changing the LAPTOP’s password every 8 weeks and you can’t reuse any of the last 10 passwords used. I hate it because I can’t use a password manager to unlock my laptop and I’m so used to password managers by now that it’s getting really hard to come up with new passwords that follow the stupid requirements and even worse remembering them. I’m veeeery close to just start noting them down in a notebook by my machine and then send a picture to our security guy to show him where he has gotten us all to


I’ve actually had to deal with this very recently. My setup is via docker-compose and the way to solve it was to have an OpenVPN container with its own network defined. Then, in the same compose file I’d put qbittorrent in the same network as the VPN. That way all of the services go through my normal network but qbittorrent can only go through the VPN’s network.