Amir Eslampanah Posts

In the previous tutorial titled How to Install GitLab CE to have your own CI (Continuous Integration) with Source Control on Debian 10 we went over the advantages of GitLab. However GitLab is notoriously fickle in a production environment; updating it can easily break your entire workflow and it isn’t the most reliable solution for someone who just needs GUI-assisted commit tracking.

In comes GitBucket a fully self-contained GitHub clone (written in Scala) that you can host yourself and that runs off of the JVM.

Step 0:

First you will have to ensure that your machine has at-least Java8 installed.

In this case we will use the OpenJDK version (because we like open source and development) but note that you can also use the OpenJRE as well as the Oracle Java.

sudo apt-get install default-jdk

Check that your Java version is higher than 8

java --version 

In our case we have 11.0.9 which is good

openjdk 11.0.9 2020-10-20 OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.9+11-post-Debian-1deb10u1) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 11.0.9+11-post-Debian-1deb10u1, mixed mode, sharing)

Step 1:

Now lets download the latest gitbucket.war file from the releases page

In our case it is version 4.34

wget https://github.com/gitbucket/gitbucket/releases/download/4.36.2/gitbucket.war

And give it a test run using the terminal

java -jar gitbucket.war

Now it should show up when you go to yourwebsite.com:8080

Step 2:

Lets enable SSL via proxing from your main site

If you don’t know how to enable SSL in OpenLiteSpeed refer to my previous tutorial titled Installation and Configuration of OpenLiteSpeed with PHP, MariaDB, LetsEncrypt SSL, PHPMyAdmin, and NinjaFirewall on Debian 10 Buster

Create a new VHOST with whatever parameters you want

Now you’ll want to go to External App->+ sign to add an external app, choose type Web Server

Fill in the details

Now add a new context of type proxy by going to Context->+

Now go to SSL and fill in the SSL parameters from your main domain

Enable Rewrite to HTTPs

Create an A record in your nameserver configuration (in your nameserver’s management interface – typically your domain provider) to point the gitbucket.yourwebsite.com subdomain to your server’s IP address

Add it in both HTTP and HTTPs Listeners for your created VHOST

Save all changes and Do a graceful restart

Now you should be able to visit your subdomain gitbucket.yourwebsite.com and it should automatically redirect to the HTTPS link (this is vital since the connection needs to be secure for logins)

Step 3:

Now that its running we need to make it into a service so that it starts automatically on reboots

First lets move it to somewhere that makes sense for an executable

cd ~
mv gitbucket.war /usr/bin/gitbucket.war

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/gitbucket.service

Paste the following contents and save

Description=GitBucket Server Service
After=network.target
StartLimitIntervalSec=0
[Service]
Type=simple
Restart=always
RestartSec=1
User=root
ExecStart=/usr/bin/java -jar /usr/bin/gitbucket.war
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Now you’ll want to run the following commands to update, start and enable it to run at boot

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl start gitbucket
sudo systemctl enable gitbucket

Now it should survive between reboots

You’re done 😉

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With some laptops like the one in the Getting XIDU PhilBook Max to Play Nice with Linux tutorial there can be a different offset than the standard one that is expected.

In order to avoid staring at the screen at right angles (to the detriment of both your neck and sense of orientation) we must make some changes to the configuration file for the orientation matrix in the distro. In the previous tutorial we covered a situation where the distribution didn’t support automatic rotation out of the box; now we cover a situation where the distro does support it.

First lets fix the head cranking temporarily so we can keep our sanity as we do this

xrandr -o normal

Thanks to Kristian on Stack Overflow we know how to get the relevant model information

First lets get the driver name

sudo udevadm info -n /dev/iio:device0

Now lets get the vendor and product name

sudo dmidecode | grep Manufacturer
sudo dmidecode | grep Product

Now we need to replace the information into the brackets in the string below

sensor:modalias:acpi:[driver name]*:dmi:*:svn[Manufacturer]:pn[Product Name]:*
 ACCEL_MOUNT_MATRIX=0, 1, 0; 1, 0, 0; 0, 0, 1

In our case we end up with (using * as wildcards)

sensor:modalias:acpi:*KIOX010A*:dmi:*:svn*:pn*XN141A*:*
 ACCEL_MOUNT_MATRIX=0, 1, 0; 1, 0, 0; 0, 0, 1

Where ACCEL_MOUNT_MATRIX is the transformation matrix that represents our orientation

Now lets add it to the end of our list of display rotations, to do this we follow the instructions at the top of the /usr/lib/udev/hwdb.d/60-sensor.hwdb

sudo nano /etc/udev/hwdb.d/61-sensor.hwdb

Paste in the string you made above, and save

Now we need to get the system to adopt the changes

sudo systemd-hwdb update
sudo udevadm trigger -v -p DEVNAME=/dev/iio:device0
sudo service iio-sensor-proxy restart

Now the screen should rotate as expected!

Remember this was for my specific laptop and the transformation matrix necessary for your laptop may be different.

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Let’s face it,

In these crazy days of programs that span hundreds if not thousands of separate source files; keeping a track of just what changed where and when and which copy is actually the current one without any kind of source control can be a daunting task.

In comes source-control to the rescue, but it(GIT, SVN, Mercurial, etc..) isn’t very user friendly as is. Thus source control repositories with web-interfaces like BitBucket and GitHub have become very popular. These websites let you easily view changes in a graphically friendly environment as well as conduct merges, copies, forks, and various other handy source control operations with a click of a button.

The problem is that these services charge for the privilege of having a private repository, which protects your code from public viewing. That said, the bigger problem is that it is difficult to assure that your code isn’t being viewed from the service provider.

GitLab solves all these problems and adds CI functionality on top of it. Unfortunately GitLab is also quite the configuration monster when you attempt to use it without the bundled Ruby/Puma/Nginx, so we’ll have to proxy it instead of trying to run it directly through LSAPI (trust me I wasted a day going through the nightmare personally of trying to get it to work by manually installing the required ruby gems, setting the paths, etc.. it’s a hopeless cause)

Step 0:

You will need some way of running terminal commands on your machine, in this tutorial I use XSHELL but there are free alternatives such as putty.

First this tutorial assumes that you’ve already gone through the steps in my previous tutorial titled Installation and Configuration of OpenLiteSpeed with PHP, MariaDB, LetsEncrypt SSL, PHPMyAdmin, and NinjaFirewall on Debian 10 Buster

If you haven’t you can still follow the tutorial but note that there may be some divergence

Step 1:

We will need to download the package for our distribution of Linux. Luckily GitLab provides a repository installation script which handles a bunch of things for us, so lets grab that.

wget https://packages.gitlab.com/install/repositories/gitlab/gitlab-ce/script.deb.sh

We need to set the permission for this script to be executable first, so

chmod +x script.deb.sh

Now to add the repositories simply run the script

sudo bash ./script.deb.sh

Step 2:

Now lets install GitLab CE (Community Edition)

sudo apt-get install gitlab-ce

Step 3:

You may have noticed the error about GitLab not being able to detect a valid hostname, so lets configure the external URL

Open /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb with your text-editor of choice and make the following changes

First change

external_url 'http://gitlab.example.com'

To

external_url 'http://gitlab.yourwebsite.com:9191'

Optionally, you can change the default theme by UN-commenting this line

#gitlab_rails['gitlab_default_theme'] = 2

Now save and upload the file and run the following command to reconfigure GitLab

sudo gitlab-ctl reconfigure

First run of this command took my machine almost 5 minutes to complete so let it run.

Step 4(OpenLiteSpeed):

Now we need to configure the VHOST for this GitLab installation to coincide with the subdomain we picked earlier

Login to OpenLitspeed and navigate to the VHOST Configuration (If you don’t know where this is check my earlier tutorial).

Click add to add a new Virtual Host

Fill in the following:

Click Save

Note: You may get an error saying the vhost.conf file doesn’t exist; click to create it and click save

Now you should have GitLab in the vhost list

Click to edit it

Now head over to the general tab and modify the document root

Change it to

$VH_ROOT/html

Also run the following commands and upload a test index.html page to the html/ directory

mkdir /var/www/gitlab/html
chown lsadm:lsadm /var/www/gitlab/html

Next go to the Rewrite tab, Enable Rewrite and Auto Load from .htaccess

Next we need to point the subdomain to this vhost configuration before we configure SSL.

To do so go to the Listeners section and modify both HTTP and HTTPs Listeners

Create a new Virtual Host Mapping

Next if your primary website (yourwebsite.com) already has an SSL cert you can use that one (we will be modifying the certificate a bit later in order to add the subdomain). Otherwise you will have to generate a new cert (as is explained in my earlier tutorial).

Hit the refresh configuration button,

Next we need to adjust our DNS records accordingly to point to the new subdomain by adding an A record for that subdomain with the IP address of our server

Now we need to wait a while for the name-server records to update

Now we need to temporarily remove HSTS ( Strict Transport Security) on the main domain as it will force HTTPs but we haven’t extended our certificate yet

Its as simple as removing “includeSubDomains” and clearing your browser cache

After a while we should be able to visit gitlab.yourwebsite.com and see something

You’ll notice that the SSL won’t validate correctly if you don’t have a wildcard certificate

That means we will have to add the subdomain to the existing SSL certificate for it to be valid as well

Run the following command

certbot certonly --webroot -w /var/www/yourwebsite.com/html/ -d yourwebsite.com -d www.yourwebsite.com -w /var/www/gitlab/html/ -d gitlab.yourwebsite.com

Clear your browser’s cache, and refresh the OpenLiteSpeed configuration.

Now you can navigate back to the VHOST Configuration to force HTTPs

Ãdd the following Rewrite Rule

rewriteCond %{HTTPS} !on
rewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} !https
rewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L]

Step 5:

We need to change some more settings in the GitLab.rb file to enable SSL

First, Disable LetsEncrypt (since we already generated a set of certificates for our webserver we don’t want GitLab trying to generate another)

Next, lets modify the External URL we setup at the beginning to point to HTTPS instead of HTTP

Change

external_url 'http://gitlab.yourwebsite.com:9191'

To

external_url 'https://gitlab.yourwebsite.com:9191'

Now, we need to symlink the existing certificates to the directory that GitLab expects them to be in

Your certificate and chain have been saved at: /etc/letsencrypt/live/website.com/fullchain.pem

Your key file has been saved at:
/etc/letsencrypt/live/website.com/privkey.pem

GitLab expects these to be in /etc/gitlab/trusted-certs instead and named in the following format

gitlab.yourwebsite.com.crt
gitlab.yourwebsite.com.key

Run the following commands

mkdir /etc/gitlab/trusted-certs/
ln -s /etc/letsencrypt/live/website.com/cert.pem /etc/gitlab/trusted-certs/gitlab.yourwebsite.com.crt
ln -s /etc/letsencrypt/live/website.com/privkey.pem /etc/gitlab/trusted-certs/gitlab.yourwebsite.com.key
chmod -R 755 /etc/gitlab/trusted-certs/
sudo gitlab-ctl reconfigure

If you visit https://gitlab.yourwebsite.com:9191 you should now see the GitLab Installation

However this port 9191 business isn’t ideal, so lets proxy this connection

Step 6:

First go to the GitLab VHOST we created earlier, and under External App, we’re going to add our Nginx webserver

Fill in the following settings (note that we are looping back through the external address)

Next, create a new context proxy

Fill in the proxy context definition

Save and Refresh the configuration and you’re done!

Important directories to remember for GitLab

/var/log/gitlab
/opt/gitlab
/etc/gitlab

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Ruby is a popular web programming language that is used for a variety of things while Ruby on Rails is a popular web programming framework that is used to create websites.

In this tutorial we will be installing both and demonstrating how to link them to OpenLiteSpeed. This tutorial assumes you followed the Installation and Configuration of OpenLiteSpeed with PHP, MariaDB, LetsEncrypt SSL, PHPMyAdmin, and NinjaFirewall on Debian 10 Buster.

We use GBEnv here as the current version of Ruby on Debian 10 (2.5.5) is below the minimum required version for some applications

sudo apt install dh-autoreconf autoconf bison build-essential libssl-dev libyaml-dev libreadline-dev zlib1g-dev libncurses5-dev libffi-dev libgdbm-dev curl git
git clone https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv.git /var/lib/rbenv
git clone https://github.com/rbenv/ruby-build.git /var/lib/rbenv/plugins/ruby-build

Lets add that path to the profile path and the sudoers path

nano /etc/profile

Add the following line before export PATH

PATH=$PATH:"/var/lib/rbenv/bin"

then

visudo

add the following to the end of secure_path (inside the double-quotes):

:/var/lib/rbenv/bin:/var/lib/rbenv/shims/

Now lets add it to the bashrc files, append the following lines to the TOP of the bashrc file

sudo nano /etc/bash.bashrc

export RBENV_ROOT=/var/lib/rbenv
eval "$(rbenv init -)"\

Make rbenv

cd /var/lib/rbenv/ && src/configure && make -C src

and reboot the system to ensure it applies to every user

sudo reboot

We need to initialize rbenv and check that it has been installed properly

rbenv init
curl -fsSL https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv-installer/raw/master/bin/rbenv-doctor | bash

Finally we can install the latest ruby

rbenv install $(rbenv install -l | grep -v - | tail -1)
rbenv global $(rbenv install -l | grep -v - | tail -1)

Now we have to install git and some ruby gems

sudo gem install rubygems-update
sudo gem install rack
sudo gem install ruby-lsapi
sudo gem install bundler
sudo gem install rails

Time to test it out, Navigate to VHost Configuration in the OpenLiteSpeed Web Console

First we’ll need to enable SuExec in order to run ruby apps with rack later on, navigate to Basic->Security and match the settings below

Under Context, create a new Context and fill in the following details, and save

Now to make the directory (remember to replace VHOSTDIRECTORY with your VHOST’s directory) and the sample application

mkdir /var/www/VHOSTDIRECTORY/html2
nano /var/www/VHOSTDIRECTORY/html2/config.ru

Paste the following in for your sample application

app = proc do |env|
message = "It works!\n"
version = "Ruby %s\n" % RUBY_VERSION
response = [message, version].join("\n")
[200, {"Content-Type" => "text/plain"}, [response]]
end
run app

Then set the permissions

chown -R lsadm:lsadm /var/www/VHOSTDIRECTORY/html2

Now refresh your OpenLiteSpeed server configuration, and head over to your configured VHOST Domain

If you see something like this; congratulations you’re finished

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The traditional way of transferring files from one server to another is slow and requires a bunch of setup whether its done via archiving, imaging or direct file copy.

Instead you can use LFTP to easily mirror a remote directory on a new VPS.

Step 0:

We need to install lftp

sudo apt-get install lftp

Step 1:

Now we need to connect via ssh to our old server whilst on the new server’s terminal (this is to add its host key otherwise you may get an error in the next step)

ssh -p 22 root@website.com

Step 2:

Use the following series of commands to mirror the directory

open -u user,password sftp://website.com
mirror /path/remoteDir /path/localDir
quit

That’s it!

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So a little while back, I was playing around with my machine’s BIOS, and without going into specifics. I messed it up big time.

So much so that eventually I couldn’t get a display to show and no display-out. Hence, I’ve decided to make this tutorial to help those in the same or a similar situation.

The techniques in this article should still apply to any other kind of laptop or computer system where there is a EEPROM that has enough space around it to attach an test clip to.

Note that this should be a LAST-DITCH effort to fix your machine. Try everything else, if it doesn’t work then proceed(Accept that I’m not responsible for anything that goes wrong on your machine).

Prerequisites:

• To do this SPECIFIC repair you will require a 25 series EEPROM programmer. The series will vary depending on the model number of the BIOS chip on your machine.
• You’ll need a programming software, in this tutorial we will use the open source AsProgrammer (Don’t worry the program has an English translation as well).

• After extracting it you’ll find the CHA341A drivers in the package, install the parallel drivers.

• Assemble and understand the CHA341A Programmer
• Download the replacement BIOS file (STOCK 311 BIOS DUMPED FROM CHIP! Specific to gl703gs (but may work for other gl703 series))

WARNING: DO NOT ATTEMPT TO FLASH USING THE BIOS FILE ON THE MANUFACTURER’S WEBSITE, IT WILL NOT WORK AS IT IS DESIGNED TO BE USED WITH THEIR FLASHING PROGRAM NOT A DIRECT FLASH TO CHIP USING A SEPARATE PROGRAMMER.

Step 1:

Open up the laptop (Be sure it is powered off)

Step 2:

Find your BIOS chip.

In the case of this laptop it is the MXIC MX25L12873F, notice the 25L part, that refers to the series. It is important to get a programmer that is compatible with YOUR chip as they may have different spacing. Note the little dot on the left hand corner, that is the Pin 1 position, REMEMBER it, it is important later.

Step 3:

Disconnect the Laptop Battery (push the metal cover forward, then pull cable up)

Disconnect the CMOS Battery (pull out)

Step 4:

Use the assembled test clip to attach to the bios chip, MAKING SURE, that pin 1 position(the dot indicates pin 1) is connected to the wire that is coloured red/purple. You may need to adjust it several times till you can get a good connection, note that the 2nd red light on the programmer may not turn on until you attempt to write to the chip.

Step 5:

Open AsProgrammer and select IC->Search and put the model number of YOUR bios chip, double click it when you find it.

Step 6:

Now we need to make sure that the connection is good, unfortunately I haven’t found a really easy way of doing this.

Option 1: If you haven’t flashed before using a hardware programmer you can try to read the chip and make sure that you don’t get all 00 or FF in the hex view.

Option 2: You can try to Protect and UnProtect the chip, as this process will hang unless you have a good connection.

Option 3: You can try to program the IC with some random file or data and then read to see if the same hex data was read that was written.

Either way, once you’ve verified that the connection is good you can proceed.

Step 7:

Now its time to erase the IC and program it with the BIOS file you downloaded earlier.

First Erase the Bios, and wait for the complete message to appear below

Now open up the BIOS file

Now click Program IC

Then let it finish

Now its time to verify it was written correctly, so click Read IC

And ensure that the contents of the hex view are the same as before (just check the starting bits and the ending non-zero bytes to make sure they are the same)

Start

End

Step 8:

Now its time to re-assemble the laptop, first re-connect the CMOS Battery, then the Laptop Battery, reassemble the laptop case, then plug in the charger, and give it a try. Hopefully at this point your machine should boot.

That’s it 😉

Hope this tutorial helps you out of a bind, it took me a while to figure this stuff out.

Helpful tip: If you are modding and have used the official updater program and are wondering why your BIOS keeps updating/bricking itself upon reboot, you need to remove the firmware BIOS update driver, in device manager (as that is where it installs)

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Recently, I ran into a problem when I tried to install another copy of windows on a different drive.

You see I had no idea that Windows 10 only keeps one copy of its boot-loader no matter many operating systems are installed.

I also had no idea that it merges any existing boot-loaders into the new one upon installation. In other words, when I installed windows on the new drive my old boot-loader was deleted and its contents were put into the new boot-loader ON THE NEW DRIVE.

This wouldn’t of been a problem if I hadn’t intended on using that drive for a completely different machine. Which is exactly what I did.

That meant that I couldn’t boot up my original machine anymore (without the new drive) because the boot-loader no longer existed on it.

After much trial and error, I ended up with a solution to this, and many other boot-loader issues.

The following steps should recover from almost any kind of boot-loader corruption/problem.

Step 1:

Boot into the Windows Recovery Environment using a USB or using the existing recovery partition on your system.

Open up command prompt and locate your windows drive. (Sometimes the drive letter will change in the recovery environment so be sure to find the correct letter).

Step 2:

Run the following commands in order, keeping in mind the drive letter you found earlier (be sure to replace the bracketed content and remove the brackets):

bootrec /ScanOs
bootrec /FixMbr
bootsect /nt60 SYS
bootrec /FixBoot
diskpart
list disk
sel disk [Windows Disk # Here]
list part
sel part [System Partition # Here]
assign letter=V:
exit
bcdboot [EXISTING WINDOWS DRIVE LETTER]:\Windows /s V: /f UEFI
bootrec /RebuildBcd

Step 3:

Reboot to Windows

Note you may have multiple windows entries, try each one till you find the one that works

Now you can delete the extra entries using msconfig utility, and then check the box that says make boot changes permanent and hit apply.

You’re done 😉

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Sometimes we spend so much time protecting our websites that we forget about protecting our users. It is more efficient to be proactive than reactive.

For this reason its a good idea to set some security HTTP headers so that if your users do get targeted by a hacker that they won’t be able to as easily fool them into handing over their credentials.

Step 1:

First lets open up the LiteSpeed WebAdmin console by heading over to

https://yourwebsite.com:7080

Now click on the magnifying glass icon to edit the virtual host and navigate to context

Navigate to the context tab and hit add

Make the type “Static” and hit the skip icon to the upper-right to go next

Now fill out the following, in the URI section put “/” or any subdomain you want, set accessible radio button to yes and add the following in the Header Operations box

NOTE: It is a good idea to understand exactly what Content-Security-Policy does before adding it, as if you use this without checking first if your scripts are loading anything outside your domain name it will stop those scripts from loading in browsers.

Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
Content-Security-Policy: default-src https:
X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff" always
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
Referrer-Policy: no-referrer-when-downgrade
Permissions-Policy: geolocation=(self ""),

Now you can hit the save button in the upper right and reload OpenLiteSpeed

Step 2:

To check that your headers have been set correctly, you can visit https://securityheaders.com

And hopefully you’ll have a nice A+ result!

Notes:

If you would like to learn more about these headers I suggest researching them individually.

Especially if you would like to have a more fine-tuned setup.

Please note that some of these settings can break your website if it isn’t built to use HTTPS or if it has errors/bad-practices in its make-up, please research/test each individual header prior to going to production with them.

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Flatpak is a neat little cross-distro package manager

Here’s a quickstart guide

Step 1:

Install flatpak

sudo apt install flatpak

If you use gnome you can also install this add-on so that you can browse flatpak applications in your desktop environment

sudo apt install gnome-software-plugin-flatpak

Next we’ll add the official flatpak repository

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

Now we can install firefox

flatpak install flathub org.mozilla.firefox

Step 2:

Now as to how to run firefox, if you are using gnome you can just use the plugin mentioned previously and browse to it, however if you are trying to run it from console flatpak has a way to do that

flatpak run org.mozilla.firefox

That’s it!

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Recently I’ve been getting these emails from Microsoft saying that my OneDrive account is about to be frozen ( Apparently they decided to chop everyone’s storage down after the fact to 5GB and then charge people for the excess storage they’ve already used up thinking it was free /facepalm ).

Thing is that I’ve been so busy with Life especially with the Covid-19 pandemic going on that I really don’t care about sorting out my OneDrive right now.

That being said my home connection sucks, I mean it’s really bad.

On a good day I get about 5-6mbit/s down and at that rate it would take about 37 Hours to download my entire OneDrive storage to my local system, not to mention it would piss off everyone else who wants to use the internet in the house.

Then I thought why don’t I just transfer these files to my VPS since I have the excess storage anyways and my VPS’s connection is a much more palatable 100mbit/s+ down.

In comes obstacle one, OneDrive doesn’t officially support Linux, so we’ll be using rclone to connect and download our files instead.

Step 1:

First we need to install rclone

curl https://rclone.org/install.sh | sudo bash

Easy enough am I right?

Step 2:

We need to configure rclone to connect to our onedrive account so it can fetch and mount the files for us.

Thing is this process actually requires a web-browser for the authentication part, so you cannot do it easily via console. In my case I ended up installing VNC (for which you can check my tutorial below) and Firefox (via flatpak which I will post soon).

Run the configuration prompt and type new to create a new remote server configuration

root@oneserver:~# rclone config

2020/06/16 14:31:56 NOTICE: Config file "/root/.config/rclone/rclone.conf" not found - using defaults
No remotes found - make a new one
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n

Next you’ll be asked what type of storage you wish to configure, in my case OneDrive was 23rd down the list but this may change in the future so be sure to check

Type of storage to configure.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / 1Fichier
   \ "fichier"
 2 / Alias for an existing remote
   \ "alias"
 3 / Amazon Drive
   \ "amazon cloud drive"
 4 / Amazon S3 Compliant Storage Provider (AWS, Alibaba, Ceph, Digital Ocean, Dreamhost, IBM COS, Minio, etc)
   \ "s3"
 5 / Backblaze B2
   \ "b2"
 6 / Box
   \ "box"
 7 / Cache a remote
   \ "cache"
 8 / Citrix Sharefile
   \ "sharefile"
 9 / Dropbox
   \ "dropbox"
10 / Encrypt/Decrypt a remote
   \ "crypt"
11 / FTP Connection
   \ "ftp"
12 / Google Cloud Storage (this is not Google Drive)
   \ "google cloud storage"
13 / Google Drive
   \ "drive"
14 / Google Photos
   \ "google photos"
15 / Hubic
   \ "hubic"
16 / In memory object storage system.
   \ "memory"
17 / Jottacloud
   \ "jottacloud"
18 / Koofr
   \ "koofr"
19 / Local Disk
   \ "local"
20 / Mail.ru Cloud
   \ "mailru"
21 / Mega
   \ "mega"
22 / Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
   \ "azureblob"
23 / Microsoft OneDrive
   \ "onedrive"
24 / OpenDrive
   \ "opendrive"
25 / OpenStack Swift (Rackspace Cloud Files, Memset Memstore, OVH)
   \ "swift"
26 / Pcloud
   \ "pcloud"
27 / Put.io
   \ "putio"
28 / QingCloud Object Storage
   \ "qingstor"
29 / SSH/SFTP Connection
   \ "sftp"
30 / Sugarsync
   \ "sugarsync"
31 / Tardigrade Decentralized Cloud Storage
   \ "tardigrade"
32 / Transparently chunk/split large files
   \ "chunker"
33 / Union merges the contents of several upstream fs
   \ "union"
34 / Webdav
   \ "webdav"
35 / Yandex Disk
   \ "yandex"
36 / http Connection
   \ "http"
37 / premiumize.me
   \ "premiumizeme"
38 / seafile
   \ "seafile"
Storage> 23

Next you’ll be asked to enter Microsoft App Client Id and Secret, which we’ll ignore for now since we will be using the web authentication (just hit enter)

** See help for onedrive backend at: https://rclone.org/onedrive/ **

Microsoft App Client Id
Leave blank normally.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
client_id> 
Microsoft App Client Secret
Leave blank normally.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
client_secret> 

Next it will ask you if you wish to enter advanced configuration, hit no unless you have something special planned

Edit advanced config? (y/n)
y) Yes
n) No (default)
y/n> n

Now is when you’ll be asked if you would like to auto-configure, and for this step we type yes

Use auto config?
 * Say Y if not sure
 * Say N if you are working on a remote or headless machine
y) Yes (default)
n) No
y/n> y

Now is when either your browser will open up for you or you’ll have to manually go to the link (note that I wasn’t able to connect to this port remotely, so it may be that you have to open it locally), once you go there you’ll be asked to login to your Microsoft account and allow rclone a bunch of privileges it needs to do its thing

If your browser doesn't open automatically go to the following link: http://127.0.0.1:53682/auth?state=SECRETHERE
Log in and authorize rclone for access
Waiting for code...

Got code

Next we’ll be asked to describe exactly what type of account this is, which is a little redundant to be honest.. but well.. select 1 for OneDrive

Choose a number from below, or type in an existing value
 1 / OneDrive Personal or Business
   \ "onedrive"
 2 / Root Sharepoint site
   \ "sharepoint"
 3 / Type in driveID
   \ "driveid"
 4 / Type in SiteID
   \ "siteid"
 5 / Search a Sharepoint site
   \ "search"
Your choice> Your choice> 1

Next it will search for “drives” on the remote server, if you happen to have multiple drives you can pick which one. In my case I only have one so I select 0

Found 1 drives, please select the one you want to use:
0:  (personal) id=uniqueid834avsaf
Chose drive to use:> 0

Now it will ask you to confirm the root of the drive, just type yes

Found drive 'root' of type 'personal', URL: https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=uniqueid834avsaf
Is that okay?
y) Yes (default)
n) No
y/n> y

At this point it will ask you to confirm that the access token was set correctly, type yes again

[onedrive]
type = onedrive
token = {"access_token":"AWHOLEBUNCHOFSESSIONTOKENTEXTTHATYOUSHOULDNTSHAREWITHANYONE","expiry":"2020-06-16T15:40:51.775771327Z"}
drive_id = uniqueid834avsaf
drive_type = personal
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK (default)
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y

Now that were done with the configuration we can type quit

Current remotes:

Name                 Type
====                 ====
onedrive             onedrive

e) Edit existing remote
n) New remote
d) Delete remote
r) Rename remote
c) Copy remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
e/n/d/r/c/s/q> q

Step 3:

Now lets create the folder we will mount this OneDrive to

mkdir ~/OneDrive

We need to decide what type of mounting we want, in this case we wish to have full read/write access to our files even if they disappear from the server so we use –vfs-cache-mode full

But there are many modes so be sure to check the documentation in case you don’t need a full copy (https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_mount/#file-caching)

rclone --vfs-cache-mode full mount onedrive: ~/OneDrive

And we’re done!

Now we can try to copy the files over to a local directory using a second SSH shell

mkdir ~/OneDriveBackup
cd ~/OneDrive
rsync -avzh --ignore-errors * ~/OneDriveBackup/

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