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Can someone please explain to me, a casual home user, why it's dangerous to expose my NAS login page to the internet?...
  • Even if your login page is not easy to break, it will be indexed by robots or hackes in their list. And they will test on it every vulnerability that will be published for any DSM component. Using VPNs like ZeroTier or Tailscale is definetly MUCH more secure than all of those tweaks and easier to setup too.

    But offcourse its YOUR data so ... good luck :)

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  • What SIMPLE log aggregator for homelab use?

    First of all i DONT'T ask what DO YOU use, because i know some ppl have really advanced and fancy stuff at home. So if you want give advice please try to make it relevant to this post. Otherwise it wont be usefull much.

    Im looking for some simple log aggregator system which allows me to see logs in one place (like web panel). Logs i want to observe are:

    • syslogs from few machines
    • docker containers logs
    • logs in docker volumes (like nginx proxy configs)

    I dont need fancy filtering, querying, alerting, visualisations, webhooks etc. I just want to gather my logs in one place and be able to quickly check them out. For example ELK stack which i used in the past is complete opposite of this.

    Ive seen Loki, but it requires to learn graphQL and there are some weird issues with docker driver (like freezing all containers when loki goes down??).

    Ive seen Graylog tutorial by Lawrence Systems and it seems to be simpler on the surface, yet powerfull if needed. Im checking now how to monitor docker with it.

    Ive seen some swear by splunk \- that it's easy to setup - is it true?

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    Nginx proxy shows login page for my switch but returns 403 when i enter credentials

    I want to setup proxy for my netgear router. Everything works with ip: both with http and https. But when i try to enter the site through nginx proxy it returns 403. It doesnt make sense because login page shows up correctly. I tried to set Origin header like they advise here but it just doesnt work.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/nginx/comments/g7a6da/comment/fogiil0/

    log from nginx:

    192.168.5.2 - - [19/Nov/2023:12:46:02 +0000] "GET /base/images/Registration_on.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 25 "https://netgear.mysite.com/base/cheetah_login.html" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" 192.168.5.2 - - [19/Nov/2023:12:46:02 +0000] "GET /base/images/TurnOff_on.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 25 "https://netgear.mysite.com/base/cheetah_login.html" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" 192.168.5.2 - - [19/Nov/2023:12:46:02 +0000] "GET /base/images/TurnOff_off.gif HTTP/1.1" 403 25 "https://netgear.mysite.com/base/cheetah_login.html" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"

    my config. I use very similar one for other things like vaultwarden, proxmox, edgerouter and many other ones and it works ok.

    server { server_name netgear.mysite.com; listen 80; return 301 https://netgear.mysite.com$request_uri; }

    server { set $DN netgear.mysite.com; server_name netgear.mysite.com; #listen 80;

    listen 443 ssl; ssl_protocols SSLv3 TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2; ssl_ciphers HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5; ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/mysite.com/fullchain.pem; ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/mysite.com/privkey.pem;

    access_log /var/log/nginx/netgear.mysite.com.access; error_log /var/log/nginx/netgear.mysite.com.error error;

    location / { proxy_http_version 1.1; proxy_request_buffering off; proxy_buffering off; # proxy_set_header Host $host:$server_port; # proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; # proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; # proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;

    proxy_pass https://192.168.5.10:443; # tried with http too

    proxy_set_header Origin https://192.168.5.10/; # tried with http too } }

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    Anything interesting I could do with spare Android phones?
  • Ive seen people building whole houses from empty bottles. He could do the same with those phones. He would end up with true "smarthome"

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