Hello all! Yesterday I started hosting forgejo, and in order to clone repos outside my home network through ssh://, I seem to need to open a port for it in my router. Is that safe to do? I can’t use a vpn because I am sharing this with a friend. Here’s a sample docker compose file:
version: "3"
networks:
forgejo:
external: false
services:
server:
image: codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo:7
container_name: forgejo
environment:
- USER_UID=1000
- USER_GID=1000
- FORGEJO__database__DB_TYPE=postgres
- FORGEJO__database__HOST=db:5432
- FORGEJO__database__NAME=forgejo
- FORGEJO__database__USER=forgejo
- FORGEJO__database__PASSWD=forgejo
restart: always
networks:
- forgejo
volumes:
- ./forgejo:/data
- /etc/timezone:/etc/timezone:ro
- /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
ports:
- "3000:3000"
- "222:22" # <- port 222 is the one I'd open, in this case
depends_on:
- db
db:
image: postgres:14
restart: always
environment:
- POSTGRES_USER=forgejo
- POSTGRES_PASSWORD=forgejo
- POSTGRES_DB=forgejo
networks:
- forgejo
volumes:
- ./postgres:/var/lib/postgresql/data
And to clone I’d do
git clone ssh://git@<my router ip>:<the port I opened, in this case 222>/path/to/repo
Is that safe?
EDIT: Thank you for your answers. I have come to the conclusion that, regardless of whether it is safe, it doesn’t make sense to increase the attack surface when I can just use https and tokens, so that’s what I am going to do.
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Wait, so you have the full website exposed to the Internet and you’re concerned about enabling ssh access? Because of the two ssh would likely be the more secure.
But either are probably “fine” so long as you have only trusted users using the site.
Yes, hosting the site seems much safer (at least in theory) since I am proxying it through cloudflare and I am planning on putting ngynx too on top of that this afternoon
(And signup is disabled, so hopefully only trusted users can access it)
I am not sure where this idea comes from, but putting a service behind a reverse-proxy does not increase its security in any way, unless you’d do authentication right at the reverse-proxy.
I spent my day today setting up nginx with mtls at work, and I actually think it’s a great approach for what op is trying
Oh, I didn’t want to suggest that there is no value in using a reverse-proxy, there certainly is. Just don’t expect it to do anything for you in terms of application security. The application behind it is just as exposed as it would be without a proxy. So if there was a security flaw in that application, the reverse-proxy does not help at all.