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The Reluctant Sysadmin's Guide to Securing a Linux Server (pboyd.io)

submitted 1 year ago by anzo to c/[email protected]

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It scratches the surface of the most obvious stuff. I'd only add running apps in isolation (docker or adduser) and maybe fail2ban.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Are you going to elaborate, or…?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think it's mostly good advice. Certainly not comprehensive but this is securing servers we're talking about.

[+] [email protected] -9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

No, because pretty much all of it is bad. Elaborating would be meaningless.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Explaining why something is bad advice is as important as saying it is. Otherwise it’s just a pissing match between two random people on the internet. Why also keeps people from making similar problems.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I also want to know, being a beginner sysadmin myself. If you think that his advice is bad and you're not elaborating, I'll be taking his advice because his sounds sane so far.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That wouldn't make explaining how even one part of it is incorrect "meaningless".

You just cbf! :)