Linux help needed

[smartroad]

Hi guys,

I have setup an ownCloud server and was wondering about keeping it up to date with security patches etc. Would it be a good idea to add a daily cron job to apt-get update/upgrade? I plan to have it at my parents so I can use it as offsite backup, and I don't want to relly have the SSH exposed to the internet.

Any Linux guys have a thought on this?

[charlie2alpha]

You're not supposed to do upgrades in such an automated way, at least in the owncloud's case it requires running an update command from the command line to update it's internal databases. Can be done from the web interface too but it is not recommended, and at least once it broke the database for me.

You should keep the SSH exposed but, change it's listening port to a non standard port and use a key pair based authentication only, not interactive password authentication. I've been doing it like this for 15 years now, never had a security breach.

[smartroad]

Cheers!

I have been using the Pi for ages, but this is the first time using it remotely! I'll look at how to setup the key based authorization.