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Convincing (media.piefed.social)
submitted 1 day ago by perishthethought@piefed.social to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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(The meme's author may be convinced but I am still not, to be clear)

From: https://terra.incognita.net/@RainofTerra/116168632108345829

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[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

The nice thing about SSH key-based access is, I either have the key and login succeeds, or I have no business trying to log in.

That's why my remote root server bans via fail2ban after a single failed login.

Yes I've had to write support to get a KVM. Yes it's still configured like this.

[–] baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

i am a tailscale enjoyer, which means i can set up tailscale ssh once on each machine and then from another machine just login over tailscale

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

How's that different from normal ssh?

[–] glibg10b@lemmy.zip 1 points 12 minutes ago

With Tailscale, you don't have to open your SSH port to the whole internet. It's actually kind of silly that many servers are still exposing ports for private services on the internet

[–] baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 hours ago

you can disable the need for a password or key if you like, and you also don't really need fail2ban, since nothing is actually port forwarded anywhere

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Eh, the machine is actually in one of my wireguard nets anyways, but for different purposes.

[–] probablymissing@lemmy.world 0 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

as a nixos enjoyer, i have no idea how to setup ssh keys. fail2ban and a regular password for me.

yes, i have locked myself out of my own server for hours at a time because i'm an absolute tool.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Ehm... I'm also on Nixos and I'd say it's super trivial.

services.openssh = {
  enable = true;
  settings = {
    PasswordAuthentication = false;
    PermitRootLogin = "no";
  };
};

users.users.<name>.openssh.authorizedKeys.keys = [ list of pubkeys ideally read from file in repo ];
[–] Urist@lemmy.ml 2 points 32 minutes ago (1 children)

So easy it should be illegal! I mean, how can we feel superior if we are not wasting huge amounts of time setting things up!?

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 1 points 3 minutes ago

I mean, how can we feel superior if we are not wasting huge amounts of time setting things up!?

Why, by boasting that it's so easy, just look at that, it is only two options you need to set thanks to the 80 custom modules I've written to abstract the abstractions from nixpkgs!

I WISH I could put an /s here, but I cannot.