Comment on How to Setup a Secure Ubuntu Home Server

01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• pulsewidth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Unless you wanna run headless and do everything via SSH then desktop is better, its essentially identical to server, but with a GUI and some apps bundled by default - both of which new users and infrequent server admins generally need.

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  • 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Right, but if I don’t care for gui and am good with cli, would this guide still be followable? That’s kind of what I was trying to ask, I guess.

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    • pulsewidth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      That guide looks like it has all steps explained with terminal commands, so it should be fine to go for Server version to follow the guide.

      I’m also pretty sure you can install the desktop GUI for Server later if you decide you need it for whatever reason, just in case.

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• udc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Thanks for pointing that out, I’ll update it. I was looking for blog post material and posted a guide I previously wrote it for someone. I don’t remember why exactly I wrote that at the time. To be honest I wasn’t even sure if anyone would read it haha.

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  • 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Don’t sell yourself short. This guide had the very real potential to be invaluable to someone just starting out! It’s a great guide! Just needs a little more of the “why” factor, is all : ) keep it up!

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    • udc@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Thanks :D!

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• Jason2357@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It walks you through setting up SSH with keys and then git entirely via the command line. Maybe they plan on writing more?

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  • 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That’s what I was thinking, but I wasn’t sure. I figured I’d ask op, since the post seems to be theirs.

    As I’m writing this, I’m thinking maybe it’s because Server is generally cli-first, and this post is geared towards a more noob audience, so they’re going gui-first? If so, I appreciate the forethought.

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    • AnIntenseMoist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Then do something like Fedora Server, which gives you a web GUI after a guided graphical setup. More user-friendly than ssh and managing everything through the terminal (though you can certainly still do that)

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      • 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        True, but OP’s guide is for Ubuntu, so newcomers will be lost with Fedora following this guide, since they are vastly different.

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