Ponziani

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[–] Ponziani 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

But wouldn't the port being open alert anyone who looks for that? Network security is not my specialty but I believe I have read that people can ping/scan ip addresses easily and quickly to determine if any ports are open / forwarded, so if Wireguard was used or any VPN software, they could pick up on that as an attack vector?

[–] Ponziani 1 points 7 months ago

I am aware that opening / forwarding ports are attack vectors and they become unavoidable though if i need the vpn and ssh capability, however, in theory the ssh port could be closed/not forwarded if traffic/connection was tunneled through the VPN. Those are my thoughts

[–] Ponziani 1 points 7 months ago
[–] Ponziani 4 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Both require opening a port but theoretically ssh going through the vpn would mean port 22 does not need to be open/forwarded right, as opposed to both port 22 and whichever for the VPN open?

[–] Ponziani 6 points 7 months ago

Thank you for this excellent answer

[–] Ponziani 4 points 7 months ago

I'm looking for the same thing, simply an app that allows 2 people to edit a list with no ads. No luck so far.

[–] Ponziani 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Honestly i never see any resistance to these kinds of steps forward

[–] Ponziani 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What you proposed with sgid sounds like it might be what i need. All of the users are controlled my me, it's just when they connect to the smb share of the main system from other devices, i figured it was good security to use an account that is separate from my main account on the system, so they can't access the entire system or execute sudo commands

[–] Ponziani 2 points 8 months ago

Thanks for chiming in, im glad its not just me. I feel like i have a much stronger understanding on things more complicated tham groups! That makes it feel worse

[–] Ponziani 1 points 8 months ago (5 children)

But what if user A in a new group creates dir "abc" - will dir "abc" automatically be set to the correct group? I would think the group permission would be just like the user permission, not set until manually set.

[–] Ponziani 1 points 8 months ago (10 children)

Thanks for adding that tidbit at the end. The reason that permissions get out alignment is due to different non-privledged accounts (for saftey) will write or copy files somewhat regularly from outside of the main system. I am the furthest thing from a linux expert so maybe you would have a recommendation or better insight after explaining that? This necessitates changing the owner and permissions regularly, especially when I need to interact with the files adhoc and have to wait for my script to run and complete.

[–] Ponziani 1 points 8 months ago

Fixes issues in PR

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