Subj : Re: MysticBBS on NAS (NFS or iSCSI)
To   : Bucko
From : esc
Date : Tue Nov 08 2022 06:18 pm

 Bu> Thanks bud.. My son who is a security minded guy has been complaining to
 Bu> me that I have these ports open to the public, when I said they are BBS'
 Bu> his answer was yea so?!? So when I got my Ubiquiti Dream Router I
 Bu> decided to do things right and create a separate VLAN for all of my
 Bu> BBS'.. He has been pushing me more and more towards learning Docker (I
 Bu> know it is easy to understand) to just containerize everything and keep
 Bu> it as you say locked away, but my set up is I have a computer which runs
 Bu> all of the VM's in Proxmox, then backs up to an Xpenology NAS,which is
 Bu> also on the same VLAN as the BBS machine. Everything is away from my
 Bu> main lan.. Ohwell..

Docker isn't a panacea for security, just keep in mind that if your user is part of the 'docker' group, it's possible to break out of the docker container and do things as root.

In other words, make sure it's configured in a secure manner, don't just assume it's safe :)

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