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just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 week agoNot sure I can expand on it a ton more in a way that will make sense if it already doesn’t sound familiar.
Basically, there are various to authenticate yourself to most services. Password is usually the weakest and most succeptible to brute-force. There’s certificates, key pairs, RBAC…etc. You can even setup TOTP/MFA really easily for anything that supports it these days. Just don’t leave a service hanging out on the Internet to get brute-force by password though.
If you’re unfamiliar with this, start with SSH and key pairs. It’s probably the simplest intro and you can be up and running to try it out in seconds.
novalex@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Got it, I’m aware password auth can be brute forced, sadly many services don’t support more advanced auth methods so I’ve got a couple homelab apps that can only do password auth. I’m using very strong passwords and 2FA where available, and have been looking into an SSO solution like Authentik, but again not all services are supported.