I just setup a minecraft server on an old laptop, but to make it acessible i needed to open up a port. Currently, these are the ufw rules i have. when my friends want to connect, i will have them find their public ip and ill whilelist only them. is this secure enough? thanks

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22/tcp ALLOW Anywhere Anywhere ALLOW my.pcs.local.ip`

also, minecraft is installed under a separate user, without root privlege

  • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Not sure I can expand on it a ton more in a way that will make sense if it already doesn’t sound familiar.

    Basically, there are various methods to authenticate yourself to most services. Password is usually the weakest and most succeptible to brute-force and social engineering. There’s certificates, key pairs, RBAC…etc. You can even setup TOTP/MFA really easily for anything that supports it these days. Just don’t leave a service hanging out on the Internet to get brute-forced by password though.

    If you’re unfamiliar with this, start with SSH and key pairs. It’s probably the simplest intro and you can be up and running to try it out in seconds.