Comment on Would there be any potential problem of hosting public and/or private (vpn) services in a school office?

vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I have a server in my school office. I currently only use it to backup important files. I am asking if running public or private containers on it would be safe and acceptable.

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  • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    If authorized by the school IT department and policy, yes. Ask them, not us.

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    • ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yes, already have. It seems they don’t care.

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      • vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        If that’s how you want to run your server that’s your choice, but if it were me, I’d think long and hard about the legal implications of doing this.

        So far you’ve not said anything about what you’re trying to achieve and that’s not helping.

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      • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        It seems they don’t care.

        Then get that in writing.

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    • ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Well, I am asking also security wise. I know most schools snoop. Can they somehow see traffic through ssh or VPN? Or just the protocols, logs, dates, etc

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      • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        The SSH and VPN traffic is encrypted. Unless your private keys have been compromised, nobody can see what is going over the tunnel. They can log things like the IP addresses that are connecting to it and how much data is being transferred though.

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