Mia

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StrongSwan detected on my Raspberry Pi without having installed it myself. in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] 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

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StrongSwan detected on my Raspberry Pi without having installed it myself. (feddit.de)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Mia@feddit.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml
7 comments fedilink
 

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

Reddit just auto removed my comment with a link to Lemmy.ml in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] Mia@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

This is crazy. Can someone reproduce this behaviour?

Reddit habit is hard to break. in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] Mia@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

Reddit habit is hard to break. in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] Mia@feddit.de 20 points 1 year ago (8 children)

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

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Places to go to learn Linux administration (feddit.de)
 

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

Mastodon? in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] 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.