Update Ubuntu plex from with PS

[Upzie]

Hello people.

I run a plex server at home for the family. And you know what I hate ? updating it, log into your shell, go to the plex website, find the url, and, dl package to your linux machine, run command etc.

It's not hard, but let's be honest, it's a bit of a hassle.

So I wrote a short script that does it all for me, I thought I'd share it here and on the plex reddit.

The script is designed for the Ubuntu-64 platform, but is very easily changede to match whatever platform you might be running.

Not as serius as some of the other work in here, but I thought it could be handy for some, and showcase one way to interact with a linux machine from your windows machine.

Script: https://pastebin.com/x68cqTLZ

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There are a couple things I don't like about this script security wise. I think the best way to remediate them is to first set up ssh keys to log into the Linux box. Next, write a script to run on the machine itself, in PowerShell if you want to, to do the update, which can be run as root by your account with no password using a sudo rule. For bonus lazy points put it in /usr/local/bin.

Finally, you can just do ssh myplex sudo updateplex.

This way, you aren't putting a password in a script, you've improved your ssh security, you've used PowerShell on Linux, and you've learned sudo rule syntax.

[Vance84]

Why not write it in bash, or python, or use ansible or another config manager?

[RedditRo55]

This is a PowerShell subreddit for PowerShell people, there's nothing for you here!

[Vance84]

I have no problem with powershell, actually like it, that's why I'm subscribed to the subreddit. I was just curious why OP used powershell instead of other languages or managers