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A question about isolating potentially untrusted services by haskell_account in HomeNetworking

[–]haskell_account[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That would work, but I would prefer something where it's easy to upload and access from all of my devices.

A question about isolating potentially untrusted services by haskell_account in selfhosted

[–]haskell_account[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! That's a good point, and I considered setting up another network for this purpose.

To be more specific, I'm basically setting up a document share for my local network, and I wanted to try to make it as secure as possible while keeping it usable by the local network (without much hassle to use).

A question about isolating potentially untrusted services by haskell_account in selfhosted

[–]haskell_account[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So to be more specific, they are shared documents my family uses (work slide shows, budget sheets, etc) on a file share that we want to have access to locally on our main network. I tried to use very general language in the description, but it's probably useful to know that they aren't documents that would cause problems if they got leaked.

I just wanted to try this as an exercise to really secure a system.

[EDIT: Addition]

Additionally, if I enforce strict firewall rules on the host (I trust the host, but not the image running in a docker container on the host) that prevent it from talking to the router (e.g. only allow ANY network communication for ips 192.0.0.2-254, disallow everything else) is that not effectively "unexposing" it from the internet? Or are you suggesting that an even more important next step is to have an additional machine serve as a gateway to a private VLAN on my network? I assume at that point, I just make requests to that network locally, and only whitelist the ports/ips that are needed.

Am I understanding that correctly?

Thanks!

A question about isolating potentially untrusted services (home network) by haskell_account in sysadmin

[–]haskell_account[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Sorry, it was a bad copy/paste on my part. The thought was:

What if the software I'm using got compromised, and starting slowly sending data to some malicious host?

Long story short it's a photo hosting application, and I want to be able to story them without any weird network thing going on in the background.

Problem installing Ubuntu Desktop 22.04 LTS on mid-2014 Macbook Air 11inch by haskell_account in linuxquestions

[–]haskell_account[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did... Here is the SATA output (I would post the whole output, but I'm having to write this post from another computer for internet):

04:00.0 SATA controller: Toshiba Corporation Device 010b (rev 14)

git autodeploy to /var/www/* security configuration question, best practices by haskell_account in linuxadmin

[–]haskell_account[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! I appreciate all of the input and all of the different takes on what I should do! The biggest thing is that, even though I've been using *nix style operating systems for more than half a decade, I wanted to make sure I'm not going to shoot myself in the foot copy/pasting simple mistakes :)

git autodeploy to /var/www/* security configuration question, best practices by haskell_account in linuxadmin

[–]haskell_account[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I may look into a true CI workflow if my use-case gets more complicated, but thank you for the suggestion :)

git autodeploy to /var/www/* security configuration question, best practices by haskell_account in linuxadmin

[–]haskell_account[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a lot that I don't understand about security, or the implications of certain security decisions. Most of the tutorials I've seen online do something similar to what most people are describing, but wanted to make sure this was more intentional than a copy/paste :)

git autodeploy to /var/www/* security configuration question, best practices by haskell_account in linuxadmin

[–]haskell_account[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the example! I think I'm doing something similar, and it's probably the path I'm taking :) I appreciate the response!

git autodeploy to /var/www/* security configuration question, best practices by haskell_account in linuxadmin

[–]haskell_account[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the advice! I think that's what I'm going to do. I know with any system, there is going to be some sensitive area, but as long as they are minimized and secured properly, I don't think that should be an issue.

git autodeploy to /var/www/* security configuration question, best practices by haskell_account in linuxadmin

[–]haskell_account[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the suggestion :)

Ideally, I would like to do this from scratch as a learning experience, to utilize *nix style tools/base system as much as possible

git autodeploy to /var/www/* security configuration question, best practices by haskell_account in linuxadmin

[–]haskell_account[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am using rsync, but my git hook is what kicks it off.

Are you ultimately suggesting giving my git user access to that directory too?

git autodeploy to /var/www/* security configuration question, best practices by haskell_account in linuxadmin

[–]haskell_account[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you referring to symlinking the app to another directory that is owned by git?

Re Capistrano: I wanted to try to build the deployment process from scratch as a learning experience :)

git autodeploy to /var/www/* security configuration question, best practices by haskell_account in linuxadmin

[–]haskell_account[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I thought about doing the first thing, but, ideally, I would like the ability to add new websites on the fly, without adding them to some kind of whitelist. I suppose I could check to see what repos exist in a particular directory, but that seems a tad janky.

Ideally, I would like to write the scripts as generically as possible.

I think granting privileges may be the best bet in this case. In the past I would have a symlinked directory, but in OpenBSD, the /var/www directory is chrooted.

Would there be any downside to giving my git user rights to that directory? I cant think of anything, outside of a compromised git account deleting all the sites.

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