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

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] GlitzyArmrest 4 points 1 year ago (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 /.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱 I don't know how to express how much this shocked me

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

A good tip in itself, but you can also look at the source and feel good or bad about it. I didn't expect so many downvotes

https://github.com/hwdsl2/setup-ipsec-vpn

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year 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.