@InternetCitizen2
Nextcloud with CalDAV

@Pacmanlives
So it was a fake root prompt which tricked the bots into believing that they logged in successfully but in reality the prompt could do nothing on the system?

@Tekkip20

My first installed Linux distro was Ubuntu 5.10. I started experimenting with Linux because my neighbour at the time said good things about Linux. He used windows himself but he also heard good things about Linux and spread the word in curiousity. Eventually I was the one of us who made the jump.

@linux

@Pacmanlives
Couldn’t you just disable root login in the sshd config?

@hedge typewise seems cool

@t0mri I have both. and i use both in different situations. depends on the specific document.

@Matriks404

if isFirst14Attempts

@kandoh
Yes haha. This way we can get back to the times where 4 characters passwords were sufficient 😃

@TrickDacy

Indeed. Linux nowadays works out of the box if you choose a distro such as Ubuntu or Fedora.

The Wifi issue thing is an old story which was a reality back in 2005 when I started using Linux.

@trailblazer911

@possiblylinux127
And then enterprise Linux on your home desktop?

@possiblylinux127
What do you mean with other way around?

@Xttweaponttx
Yeah i agree. The ad stuff is really bad. Having ads in the browser is enough. I don’t want it in my OS. But even all the way back in Windows 7 some people busted Windows in “calling home” when something was entered in the search field in the Start menu. This was caught using the ZoneAlarm firewall.

@tourist
😅 Time is critical in such situation

@tourist im sorry to hear :(

did you manage to recover it?

@GnomeComedy ansible sounds cool. i don’t know anything about it, but it seems like this is a bit of the same as i’m doing with Dockerfiles for my Fedora Kinoite. building my own custom OS image with github actions and then every 3rd day the new image gets pulled by my pc from the cloud.

@mfat and with Distrobox containers.

@Shareni
With bootleg RHELs you mean Alma and Rocky?

@sepiroth154
Indeed. 😄 You’re the first to catch it 😄

@Pantherina
There is a free subscription for RHEL for individuals.

And I think it’s less of an issue nowadays with old packages since we have extra layers such as podman containers over distrobox, flatpak, snap, Nix etc.
Then you can have a solid base OS with less solid layers on top where things are allowed to break but don’t mess with the rest of the system. I use Fedora Kinoite as my base for this exact reason.

@Annoyed_Crabby
Good answer