What's your plan to allow family access to important materials on your servers upon your death? What about for materials you don't want them to access? (lemmy.selfhostcat.com)

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[-] otter@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

There are a few self hosted dead man's switches which might work in this case.

Easiest might be to give passwords to a trusted friend with technical experience and a list of the important things that you want done.

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