What do you guys use / recommend to set up your own VPN to access your LAN services remotely?

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[–] 23 points 3 years ago (7 children)

Security 101: Never blindly run shell scripts from a random comment on the internet.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    It’s also piped to sudo so that’s super cool too

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    I sure hope there isn't a rm -rf floating around in there somewhere.. kind of like a certain past incident with major gaming client.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    I want to know more 😳 do you have something? A link?

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    In the Steam Linux client, there was this line: rm -rf "$STEAMROOT/"*.

    If the variable $STEAMROOT isn't defined (or is an empty string), it basically runs rm -rf "/"*, which means delete all subfolders of /.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago

    Tbf, a lot of applications and tools provide installation scripts in lieu of more elaborate manual setup. Doesn't make it safer, but if you want to install something, you have to trust the source with shell access at some point anyway.

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