I just setup a minecraft server on an old laptop, but to make it acessible i needed to open up a port. Currently, these are the ufw rules i have. when my friends want to connect, i will have them find their public ip and ill whilelist only them. is this secure enough? thanks

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22/tcp ALLOW Anywhere Anywhere ALLOW my.pcs.local.ip`

also, minecraft is installed under a separate user, without root privlege

    • ShortN0te@lemmy.mlEnglish
      72·
      2 months ago

      no. The default port is fine. Changing the default port does nothing for security. It only stops some basic crawler, when you are scared by crawler, then you should not host anything on the internet.

      • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        2 months ago

        It’s not fine. Easiest way to rack up utilization on your server is getting hits on all the default service ports. Change that port to any unprivileged port to avoid that somewhat. Not every bot crawler is doing port scans on random non-commercial and unidentified IP space.

        What you’re describing is security through obscurity, but switching from the default port has other benefits like the above.

        • ShortN0te@lemmy.mlEnglish
          11·
          2 months ago

          Getting “hit” is nothing to worry about by automated scripts. All it does is keep your logs a little bit cleaner. Any attack you should actually worry does not care if your ssh is running on 22 or 7389.

    • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      2 months ago

      Might throw some off but that is NetBios and things will totally go for that because Windows is terrible for security.

      All my stuff avoids anything below 1000 or that ends in 22 because most people will just go 2222 or 1022. pick a random number between 1001 and 65000