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Revoking the SSH Keys of a Friend Sucks (reddthat.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Trainguyrom@reddthat.com to c/homelab@lemmy.ml

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I'm just going to be vulnerable for a minute here. I met the first person in real life who had similar server-y linux-y obsessions to me and we'd send eBay links of systems to drool over to eachother. They ended up being a terrible person but hid it from me pretty well until they couldn't anymore and now I no longer have someone to chat with about those things.

So um, I guess I'm open for applications for the position of "nerdy friend who I nerd too hard with about network infrastructure and Linux packages" now

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[-] Hupf@feddit.de 80 points 1 year ago

https://xkcd.com/215/

[-] majestictechie@lemmy.fosshost.com 27 points 1 year ago

There's an xkcd for everything

[-] Possible6388@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

It there an xkcd for coming into the comments and saying there’s and xkcd for everything?

[-] majestictechie@lemmy.fosshost.com 7 points 1 year ago

It's not an official one: https://thomaspark.co/2017/01/relevant-xkcd/

[-] Possible6388@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Close enough!

[-] 7heo@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

expired

[-] Menel@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Incredible

[-] kool_newt@lemm.ee 69 points 1 year ago

Your public key is no longer in my ~/.ssh/authorized_keys :(

That's a serious breakup, can't say I've even had anyone that close. Finding the right friends is like finding the right distro and it hurts when someone shows you an ugly part of them (ahem Red Hat).

[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 22 points 1 year ago

It was just access to a VPS we had a couple of minor things running on so nothing too big, but still its a very real action that says "this is over" so hitting Ctrl+O then Ctrl+X was pretty heavy

[-] nick@feddit.nl 30 points 1 year ago

You don’t use vim? I do not see how anyone could be friends with you.

jk, of course.

[-] Radium@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

Yeah, :wq! Hits a lot harder than a Ctrl+x and Ctrl+o

[-] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

jjjdd:wq!

[-] Penguincoder@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I still use vim to this day. Mainly cause I can't figure out how to quit...

[-] dirtypirate@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago

I had a similar, we'd kept an IRC channel open for years, then he went off the deep end with conspiracies and I cut contact. I miss my friend but that friend was a chill software geek, not the rage addicted lunatic who took his place.

[-] smajl@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago

There is no other place like 127.0.0.1

[-] e_t_@kbin.pithyphrase.net 14 points 1 year ago

::1 is a compelling alternative

[-] thanevim@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago

::1 and the same?

...ok that was a bad pun

[-] deksesuma@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

Never apologize for puns. Each one is glorious.

[-] lowleveldata@programming.dev 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It sucks but make sure to remove every means of potential attacks

[+] vettnerk@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 7 points 1 year ago

I recently went back to college and got a network engineer degree then stumbled into a super chill Origami admin role. I swear it's the middle management IT without actually managing anyone. I sit in meetings, reset passwords and occasionally make changes to the production database!

I just make sure to tinker on the side to keep myself sane and keep the skills sharp. I want to get more than a random old laptop running docker going (there's some fun stuff I could do with routing in that I really want to play with sometime) but I've got grownup responsibilities to catch up with that I neglected while returning to college before I can do that

[-] vettnerk@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Fun stuff with routing? Do tell.

[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 6 points 1 year ago

So with the way my house is laid out it and the difficulty in running network cables it would really make sense to put the server rack in the spider-filled basement, and a network switch on each floor. But while thinking about cost effective ways to achieve that (including use of the long distance stacking feature of the classic Brocade ICX switches or just running some of those Chinese 2.5G softrouter boxes) I keep coming back to this idea of instead setting up a BGP routed WAN or similar.

By running redundant cables I gain resilience against the chaos I live in (multiple kids and pets plus pretty frequently reorganizing furniture to get all of us to fit comfortably in our 1200 square foot starter house) plus by using a routing protocol like BGP it should do some amount of load balancing to allow more bandwidth between clients (I find peer to peer network technologies super neat so i love experimenting with them) but the thought also comes to use those Microtik router cards for even more bandwidth

Honestly it's a lot of ideas I've been bouncing around while my family spends all of my hobby money on things like mini vacations that we can all enjoy

[-] CallumWells@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Sounds like you absolutely should run a lot of redundant cables and making sure your house is a micro-internet.

[-] dingus@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago

Brutal. However, there's plenty of us who fit that bill here, I'm sure.

[-] grue@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

!selfhosted@lemmy.world is one of the biggest communities on that instance (and therefore also likely one of the biggest in the entire fediverse, since that instance is so big). In other words, I think you might be right, LOL.

[-] Cube6392@beehaw.org 16 points 1 year ago

I don't want access to your server but I'm more than willing to chit chat Linux and FLOSS stuff

[-] ssk227@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

i don't want to chit chat, i just want access to his server.

(kidding of course)

[-] baascus@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

Im sorry that this happened to you. It sucks to learn that someone isn’t who you thought they are after you trust them.

I’m a network engineer by trade and a Linux enthusiast, and happily apply for the position 😊

I hope that one day there will be a larger community of network engineers on Lemmy, however it seems that most did not make the migration off of that old site.

[-] nix@merv.news 8 points 1 year ago

Curious about what you discovered about them and how they were hiding it

[-] xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com 5 points 1 year ago

Thats a shame!

Once upon a time, me and a few buddies had a pretty nice BGP setup going between a few sites.

He maintained two sites, I maintained both my home network, and a cloud-based router, and had my other friend connected up.

It was a pretty sweet setup. iBGP routing, we had a form of dynamic multipoint VPN.

Was a fun experiment. But, good things can't last forever. So... my network is the only piece left.

And- I don't trust anyone else enough to setup any access at all.

[-] csm10495@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Sorry bud.

Though this got me thinking can there be a specific message to a specific user attempting to login (and deny their login)?

[-] NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

You could create a login banner and just delete their account

[-] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Sorry to hear that. I've had a similar thing happen before, it sucks.

I'm not super dependable tbh, but I always make an effort to communicate as much as I can with folks. Feel free to hmu on DM, we can connect on other platforms if you wanna.

Otherwise, best of luck, you'll find a new buddy :)

[-] ikidd@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I'm coming up on 45 years being friends with a fellow nerd and we talk about all sorts of things that I have nobody else I could talk to about that stuff. I'm pretty thankful and I'm pretty sure that it'll end with one of us dying.

[-] cyberpiggy@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

.....in ethernet cables 😂

[-] housepanther@lemmy.goblackcat.com 2 points 1 year ago

I'd like to apply because I am always looking for someone passionate about open source, Linux, and BSD - also networks galore. I currently run my own Mastodon and Lemmy instances. Please look me up on Mastodon at HousePanther. I am sorry your friend turned out to be an asshole and did you dirty. That's not cool at all! There are good people out there.

[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

How nerdy you talking? Because I was tempted to get this, then I saw the price. https://shop.telegeography.com/products/2023-submarine-cable-map-free-shipping

[-] rrobin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

True friendship is indeed to trade ssh keys.

What kind of hardware are we talking about here. Tiny boxes, big boxes? Disks, networking?

[-] cyberpiggy@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Someone can never have enough nerdy friends just you do have to be rather selective...I'm open for nerdy friends 😂

[-] jsnfwlr@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

If you wanna chat, you can contact me on matrix (if i have it set up right): @jsnfwlr:matrix.home.phalacee.com

[-] michael@lemmy.perthchat.org 1 points 1 year ago

What made them so terrible?

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