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    Background: 15 years of experience in software and apparently spoiled because it was already set up correctly.

    Been practicing doing my own servers, published a test site and 24 hours later, root was compromised.

    Rolled back to the backup before I made it public and now I have a security checklist.

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    [–] stoy@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    I ran a standard raspian ssh server on my home network for several years, default user was removed and my own user was in it's place, root was configured as standard on a raspbian, my account had a complex but fairly short password, no specific keys set.

    I saw constant attacks but to my knowledge, it was never breached.

    I removed it when I realized that my ISP might take a dim view of running a server on their home client net that they didn't know about, especially since it showed up on Shodan...

    Don't do what I did, secure your systems properly!

    But it was kinda cool to be able to SSH from Thailand back home to Sweden and browse my NAS, it was super slow, but damn cool...

    [–] troed@fedia.io 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

    Why would a Swedish ISP care? I've run servers from home since I first connected up in ... 1996. I've had a lot of different ISPs during that time, although nowadays I always choose Bahnhof because of them fighting the good fights.

    [–] stoy@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago

    They probably don't, unless I got compromised and bad traffic came from their network, but I was paranoid, and wanted to avoid the possibility.

    [–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

    But it was kinda cool to be able to SSH from Thailand back home to Sweden and browse my NAS, it was super slow, but damn cool...

    That feels like sorcery, doesn't it? You can still do this WAY safer by using Wireguard or something a little easier like Tailscale. I use Tailscale myself to VPN to my NAS.

    I get a kick out of showing people my NextCloud Memories albums or Jellyfin videos from my phone and saying "This is talking to the box in my house right now! Isn't that cool!?" Hahaha.

    I'm almost glad I had to go that route. Most of our ISPs here in the U.S will block outgoing ports by default, so they can ~~keep the network safe~~ sell you a home business plan lol.