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The Reluctant Sysadmin's Guide to Securing a Linux Server (pboyd.io)

submitted 1 year ago by anzo@programming.dev to c/homelab@lemmy.ml

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It scratches the surface of the most obvious stuff. I'd only add running apps in isolation (docker or adduser) and maybe fail2ban.

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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry to say, but this is mostly bad advise.

[–] argv_minus_one 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Are you going to elaborate, or…?

[–] Technoguyfication@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

No, because pretty much all of it is bad. Elaborating would be meaningless.

[–] NateSwift 10 points 1 year ago

Explaining why something is bad advice is as important as saying it is. Otherwise it’s just a pissing match between two random people on the internet. Why also keeps people from making similar problems.

[–] f5xs_bhw0a 4 points 1 year ago

I also want to know, being a beginner sysadmin myself. If you think that his advice is bad and you're not elaborating, I'll be taking his advice because his sounds sane so far.

[–] michael@lemmy.perthchat.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That wouldn't make explaining how even one part of it is incorrect "meaningless".

You just cbf! :)

[–] Bipta@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I think it's mostly good advice. Certainly not comprehensive but this is securing servers we're talking about.