@Coldus12@lemmy.fmhy.ml to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years agoSetting up your own VPNmessage-square65fedilinkarrow-up174arrow-down11file-text
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minus-squareRikudou_SagelinkfedilinkEnglish23•2 years agoSecurity 101: Never blindly run shell scripts from a random comment on the internet.
minus-square@gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish9•2 years agoIt’s also piped to sudo so that’s super cool too
minus-square@GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish4•2 years agoI sure hope there isn’t a rm -rf floating around in there somewhere… kind of like a certain past incident with major gaming client.
minus-square@gabriele97@lemmy.g97.toplinkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years agoI want to know more 😳 do you have something? A link?
minus-squareRikudou_SagelinkfedilinkEnglish7•2 years agoIn the Steam Linux client, there was this line: rm -rf "$STEAMROOT/"*. If the variable $STEAMROOT isn’t defined (or is an empty string), it basically runs rm -rf "/"*, which means delete all subfolders of /.
minus-square@gabriele97@lemmy.g97.toplinkfedilinkEnglish2•2 years ago😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱 I don’t know how to express how much this shocked me
minus-square@Wbbl@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglish3•2 years agoA good tip in itself, but you can also look at the source and feel good or bad about it. I didn’t expect so many downvotes https://github.com/hwdsl2/setup-ipsec-vpn
minus-square@BlueBockser@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglish0•2 years agoTbf, a lot of applications and tools provide installation scripts in lieu of more elaborate manual setup. Doesn’t make it safer, but if you want to install something, you have to trust the source with shell access at some point anyway.
Security 101: Never blindly run shell scripts from a random comment on the internet.
It’s also piped to
sudoso that’s super cool tooI sure hope there isn’t a
rm -rffloating around in there somewhere… kind of like a certain past incident with major gaming client.I want to know more 😳 do you have something? A link?
In the Steam Linux client, there was this line:
rm -rf "$STEAMROOT/"*.If the variable
$STEAMROOTisn’t defined (or is an empty string), it basically runsrm -rf "/"*, which means delete all subfolders of /.😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱 I don’t know how to express how much this shocked me
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
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.