imthenachoman/How-To-Secure-A-Linux-Server
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An evolving how-to guide for securing a Linux server.
11 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 6 stories, 5 comments · first 2019-02-16 · latest 2025-08-01
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> In short it’s all about control, privacy, and security, in that order. I am going to strongly urge you to consider changing that order and move *security* to the first priority. I have long run my own servers, it is much easier to setup…
comment by leejoramo · 2022-10-05 · in Ask HN: How can a total beginner start with self-hosting? -
I can't claim to have been through it but this is sitting on my bookmarks folder and looks very useful: https://github.com/imthenachoman/How-To-Secure-A-Linux-Serve... My only tip I haven't seen mentioned here is be very careful using…
comment by NoboruWataya · 2022-09-08 · in Ask HN: What Linux setup/hardening guide do you use? -
It has been mentioned in one of the pull request that this guide was being discussed on HN right after it got here: https://github.com/imthenachoman/How-To-Secure-A-Linux-Serve... . There are two fresh threads on Reddit:…
comment by wodny · 2019-02-18 · in How to Secure a Linux Server -
Would you mind pasting the output of `deborphan` showing those two or creating a new issue on my GitHub page? I want to show it to the author of `deborphan` to see if he knows why its happening. https://github.com/imthenachoman/How-To-Secur…
comment by imthenachoman · 2019-02-18 · in How to Secure a Linux Server -
Hey folks! I am the author of this guide. I did not know this was here or I would have commented sooner. This is my first time putting a guide like this together. I see a lot of really great feedback and I will be incorporating them into…
comment by imthenachoman · 2019-02-17 · in How to Secure a Linux Server