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.

  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
    7·
    1 month ago

    I do worry about putting up public servers that other people might rely on because there’s something I might not realize making it vulnerable.

    So far I have pubkey root login only on the VPSs I’m messing around with, but my ol’ reliable private key from 6 years ago might be beginning to fall behind on encryption standards.

    • 0xD
      1·
      30 days ago

      Don’t SSH in as root. Create/use your low-privileged user and add it to the sudo group (with a secure password!), then disable root login for SSH.