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I was thinking along similar lines to what you've suggested here, but then I considered how many VPS might be configured by folks following some random web tuto

I was thinking along similar lines to what you've suggested here, but then I considered how many VPS might be configured by folks following some random web tutorial, to set up their LAMP stack (or whatever), that end up doing something like what was described.

Kaliboy 4mo ago
But there it's a feature.
- smarnach 4mo ago
  Except for the M in LAMP.
  - Kaliboy 4mo ago
    Let's hope the M at least has a root password. But you are right, that would be nasty. In my time the LAMP tutorials used the distribution packages so they always had sensible defaults.
Root_Denied 4mo ago
A lot of those VPS instructions these days recommend a reverse proxy like Caddy or Traefik for that exact reason. I think it's also a valid argument to say that anyone playing around on a VPS without knowing what they're doing is probably going to learn some hard lessons, and that's kind of the point.