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    I didn't know you were supposed to disable root user... (linux.community)
    submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    Background: 15 years of experience in software and apparently spoiled because it was already set up correctly.

    Been practicing doing my own servers, published a test site and 24 hours later, root was compromised.

    Rolled back to the backup before I made it public and now I have a security checklist.

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    [–] [email protected] 46 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Lol you can actually demo a github compromise in real time to an audience.

    Make a repo with an API key, publish it, and literally just watch as it takes only a few minutes before a script logs in.

    [–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    I search commits for "removed env file" to hopefully catch people who don't know how git works.

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

    --verbose please?

    edit: never mind, found it. So there's dumbasses storing sensitive data (keys!) inside their git folder and unable to configure .gitignore...

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

    yeah, I just tried it there, people actually did it.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

    My work is transferring to github from svn currently

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

    My condolences

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

    You gremlin lmao