Installing Passbolt CE on Ubuntu 24.04 with an internal CA

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

> When I decided to set up my own Passbolt server, I relied on the excellent article by caddy666: https://aperturezone.fr/posts/passbolt/. However, the version has evolved quite a bit since then, and several steps no longer matched what I was seeing on my screen. So I decided to write an update—this in no way detracts from the relevance of the original article, which remains a very good introduction to Passbolt, but the steps below reflect the current state of version CE 5.10.0 on Ubuntu 24.04.

Installing and securing Passbolt

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Passbolt Configuration and Security Tutorial

This tutorial covers the installation, configuration, and security of a Passbolt server: Documentation

Prerequisites

A domain name/host name pointing to a server, or at least the ability to reach the server via a static IP address.
A VM with at least 2 cores and 2 GB of RAM
An SMTP server
A functional NTP service to avoid GPG authentication issues
Ubuntu Server 24.04 with LVM encryption
Provision SSL certificates

It is important to use a clean server with no other services or tools already installed. The installation scripts could potentially crash and damage data.

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Installing Passbolt CE on Ubuntu 24.04 with an internal CA

Installing and securing Passbolt

Passbolt Configuration and Security Tutorial

Prerequisites

It is important to use a clean server with no other services or tools already installed. The installation scripts could potentially crash and damage data.

VM configuration: