Mia

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[–] Mia@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The strongswan installation itself doesn't seem to be malicous.

It looks like these packages were installed via the apt repositories: strongswan-starter
strongswan-libcharon
strongswan-charon
libstrongswan

 

I have just seen that StrongSwan is installed and the service is enabled on my Raspberry Pi. But I have never used Strongswan before. Is there any way to research when it was installed? I just use the Raspi for OMV 5 with Portainer and various Docker containers. Should I be concerned that the package is installed without my active action?

EDIT:

I did some further investigation and found this commands in my .bash_history. This was approximately one year ago. Maybe I wanted to test something that I cannot remember. But interesting that despite those apt purge commands strongswan was still installed and running.

sudo apt install strongswan
sudo apt install strongswan-pki
sudo apt install libstrongswan-extra-plugins
sudo apt purge strongswan
sudo apt purge strongswan-pki
sudo apt purge libstrongswan-extra-plugins

[–] Mia@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The fact is that there is some useful info that only is on Reddit.

I mean reddit has become a insanely huge knowledge base for all sorts of technical problems and other topics. I've searched with site:reddit.com so many times for problem solving.

[–] Mia@feddit.de 17 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Muscle memory is also hard to break. I had to remove Apollo from my homescreen :D

 

Can you recommend websites, videos or challenges that help to learn Linux system administration? Something like the Linux Upskill Challenge or Bash challenges on hackerrank.com

[–] Mia@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

It definitely is worth it. In terms of the number of users, it certainly cannot be compared with Twitter. Measured in terms of interaction, meaningful exchange and a nice community, it is worlds better than Twitter.

There are topic-oriented instances, e.g. for cybersecurity (https://infosec.exchange/). But of course you can follow people from other instances through the federation. The advantage of topic-oriented instances is that you have a local timeline on which all posts of your instance appear.