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

  • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Fair enough.

    But personally I would recommend trying to setup wireguard if your router doesn’t have it integrated. It’s just so much faster than OpenVPN (usually the only built in option).

    • ricecake@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      8 days ago

      Yeah, it’s definitely faster, but I’m not sure it’s going to make too much of a difference for a Minecraft server.

      With setting it up being a bit annoying by hand, I’d still rank the router option higher even if it’s a worse VPN. Otherwise you risk ending up in that yak shaving situation where you’re fighting with routing tables and DNS when you wanted a Minecraft server.

      • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
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        8 days ago

        Yeah, that’s also fair. I have a tendency to overcomplicate things like this when all I wanted was a simple service.