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I am thinking of turning my Pi into a webserver - nothing new here. But, I am concerned about the security side of running the server alongside a home network. Before I open up my pi to the web, what are the "do's and don't's" of setting a server up on the pi?

the same as any other computer ...
however disable the user pi
add another one
use keys to login not passwords
keep everything uptodate
only expose the services you need.

RaTTuS wrote:the same as any other computer ...
however disable the user pi
add another one
use keys to login not passwords
keep everything uptodate
only expose the services you need.

Ok, thanks.

Just in case anyone else is reading this, here are some links for the suggestions.

however disable the user pi
add another one

http://raspi.tv/2012/how-to-create-a-ne ... spberry-pi
http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/qu ... a-new-user

use keys to login not passwords

http://raspi.tv/2012/how-to-set-up-keys ... spberry-pi

keep everything uptodate

/ trying to find an auto-update tutorial..

only expose the services you need

Can you elaborate on this?