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Assuming the user will not be connecting over vpn, but is both remote and non-technical, how would you expose Jellyfin to them securely?

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[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Put Jellyfin and a reverse proxy in an isolated vlan or DMZ, with no ability to reach into your lan at all and everyone connects in the same way. Its just movies, thats all you lose if it gets hacked. Set up some monitoring too in case it becomes a botnet node so you can destroy it and start over.

[–] KneeTitts@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Are the majority of you running jellyfin on windows? All of this reverse proxy stuff sounds incredibly paranoid to me and 99% of zero day exploits would be very unlikely to fully compromise up to date linux servers.

[–] Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it 4 points 1 month ago

@KneeTitts @Jason2357 Recently there are a lot of zero-day kernel exploits (local privilege escalation), so I would make sure "up to date" includes regular reboots into new kernels. As opposed to just relying on something like unattended-upgrades.

For the past few weeks we've been averaging one LPE per week, and it's probably going to continue like that for a bit.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

The reverse proxy is just to give it TLS with a let's encrypt cert. If you are running an internet facing web application without TLS, Windows is the least of your concerns.