Eadword

While the current system is great for the average home network as a media server storing non-critical and non-confidential information on a private network, with a few changes, it could be ready for so much more... Where I'm coming from: I'm new to unraid, and I am a long time Linux-user with widows as a side OS I avoid as much as possible. Currently I've been setting up a VFIO system, and because I won't just be using it to store media but to actually be my daily driver, I have certain security concerns with the current default configurations. The following is a list of changes I've compiled, largely from http://kmwoley.com/blog/securing-a-new-unraid-installation/ and somewhat ordered by importance: - SMB 1 disabled by default - FTP and Tellnet disabled by default - HTTPS enabled with a self-signed cert out of the gate (love the cert authority setup though!) - make it more clear how to encrypt new drives (can't choose to encrypt when adding the device, has to be changed in the default filesystem setting) - new shares not exported by default, and when exportrd, Private by default - Don't export the USB boot media!!! (At least not by default and add an are you sure if you try to enable it) - firewall such as UFW installed and enabled by default with only TCP port 80 and 443 set to LIMIT and whatever SMB uses opened. GUFW could be pulled from for the GUI. And providing quick check boxes for common ports would make it easy, possiblity auto enabling when you enable a core service. - Docker Isolation through Linux namespaces / subuids - allow tagging more shares for direct Linux VM mounting to prevent the need to pass through /mnt/user - better multiple-user support, it's a server, right? So people other than root should be able to ssh in and access the UI; ideally root login would be disabled with use of a wheel group instead - don't use 777 permissions by default, ideally users + groups, but at a minimum there is no reason for most things to be read, write, and execute by default! - support for openvpn - support for multiple different encryption keys And add other lurking issues to this. Even if you're not exposing a system to the public internet, a lot of these things can still cause problems if the system is up 24/7. There is no such thing as a "friendly environment" outside air-gapped systems, and my daily driver will definitely not be air gapped. Anyway, if you've made it this far and feel like this is a list of complaints, I'm sorry. I do like unraid and I already feel excited for where it's going.