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Would there be any potential problem of hosting public and/or private (vpn) services in a school office? (lemmy.selfhostcat.com)
submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Obviously if public the material would be important. But private, only over ssh or vpn? Free internet, power, and backup!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've worked for a university before and it was very common for staff to remote into their systems from home -- usually with SSH for CS types or Remote Desktop/Team Viewer/etc. for less computer-focused folks. (The former usually didn't have much issue -- the folks using the latter mechanisms got compromised a number of times... -.-) There was also a campus provided VPN that was required to access certain systems with instructions to students and staff on how to use it, but other systems just got public IP addresses.

If what you're doing is related to your work and campus IT doesn't object, you're probably fine to do it. I've run various kinds of websites and web apps for colleagues to collaborate on research projects. Being able to do things like that is kind of the point of the internet.

Having seen a number of students, uh, push the limits and find the boundaries of acceptability the hard way though... I'd strongly advise you not to install cryptominers, run TOR exit nodes, or torrent TV shows/movies/etc. That kind of thing tends to get your systems in hot water with IT or other parts of the bureaucracy...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Thanks for sharing your experience!

That’s a great point, that is exactly the point, haha. The public sites are related to the library and my research so it seems that would be allowed.

Yeah… that definitely would be too far. I’m even careful what I backup (no torrents only work) to my school machine over rsync ssh just to follow the rules.

What was the most ridiculous or funny boundary push you saw?