Coldus12@lemmy.fmhy.ml to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoSetting up your own VPNmessage-squaremessage-square59fedilinkarrow-up169arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up168arrow-down1message-squareSetting up your own VPNColdus12@lemmy.fmhy.ml to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square59fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareWbbl@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down10·1 year agoI use this one-liner to set up an IPsec VPN server: wget https://get.vpnsetup.net -O vpn.sh && sudo sh vpn.sh
minus-squareRikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22arrow-down1·1 year agoSecurity 101: Never blindly run shell scripts from a random comment on the internet.
minus-squareWbbl@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoA good tip in itself, but you can also look at the source and feel good or bad about it. I didn’t expect so many downvotes https://github.com/hwdsl2/setup-ipsec-vpn
minus-squareBlueBockser@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agoTbf, a lot of applications and tools provide installation scripts in lieu of more elaborate manual setup. Doesn’t make it safer, but if you want to install something, you have to trust the source with shell access at some point anyway.
I use this one-liner to set up an IPsec VPN server:
Security 101: Never blindly run shell scripts from a random comment on the internet.
A good tip in itself, but you can also look at the source and feel good or bad about it. I didn’t expect so many downvotes
https://github.com/hwdsl2/setup-ipsec-vpn
Tbf, a lot of applications and tools provide installation scripts in lieu of more elaborate manual setup. Doesn’t make it safer, but if you want to install something, you have to trust the source with shell access at some point anyway.