[โ€“] 3 points 6 months ago

I'm not sure if you're asking if it is better to use the same password with 2fa, or questioning a claim that it is (which I didn't see in the article). If it's the first, no it is not better to re-use a password with 2FA.

2FA is meant to prevent someone from accessing the account if they only have your password. The problem with re-use is they can attempt that same password on other services, which may or may not support 2FA, or may have flaws in their 2FA implementation.

Also, many services will "give away" that the attacker has the right password by reacting differently if they enter the wrong password vs the right one, such as only showing the 2FA prompt if they have the right password.

Using unique passwords AND 2FA is far better, as it means an attacker must start from scratch for every service they wish to attack, and still requires compromise of your 2FA device in addition to finding out your password.

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 6 months ago*

    Matrix itself isn't a thing, Matrix is a spec/protocol. Synapse and continuwuity are implementations of the server, with synapse being the "reference implementation." Client apps like Element (the reference client) would be good to have there, but I'm not sure selfh.st will want to list clients because there is quite a few.

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    Coming from Sync for Lemmy, a feature I am missing is the ability to prompt for a pin or biometric check when switching into a particular account, or opening the app to that account.

    This would be useful to protect more sensitive accounts, especially if it can also hide the protected accounts details on the account switcher, perhaps with a custom account display name local to the app?

    [โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago

    It probably would be easier to just write an "update Caddy" script. They don't release updates very often, except for security fixes, so it's not much effort to do manually. I automated mine with Forgejo Actions, you could do the same with GitHub actions as a free option for example. Lots of neat ways to accomplish this!

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Xcaddy is a build tool. Caddy plugins are built into Caddy itself for optimization purposes, so xcaddy essentially makes you a custom version of Caddy. It only conflicts with Caddy so much as building a new version would conflict with the old version. You still get a normal "Caddy" executable after running xcaddy, just replace your existing Caddy with the new one created by xcaddy!

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  • [โ€“] 11 points 2 years ago* (16 children)

    It helps protect you because if the application in question is compromised in any way (or has a flaw, i.e. an accidental rm -rf /*), the only access it has is limited to the user it is run as. If it is run as root, it has full administrative privilege.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago

    I run the setup you're aiming for, and as the other guy said, DNS challenge is the way to go. That's what I do, and it works beautifully. It even works with Caddy auto-https, you just need to build Caddy with the cloudflare-dns plugin.

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