Michael Herger;240644 Wrote: > > SSH for security, but none of the posts mention how essential this is > - > > can anyone tell what risk am I exposing myself to by opening the > ports? > > Not only you'll be able to access your SqueezeCenter, but anyone > accessing the internet. Don't be surprised when the music is turned on > at night. >
It shouldn't be to bad to only open port 9000 if you also set SlimServer/SqueezeCenter to require username & password. But if you open access to the Squeeze client protocol port (3483), you're setting yourself up for trouble, as hosts that use the Squeeze client protocol can do some things regardless of the username/password security settings. With a password and only port 9000 open, your biggest concern should be something like a Denial Of Service attack (somebody making so many requests against SlimServer that it spends all your computer's time rejecting those web requests, interfering with legitimate work), which I imagine is very unlikely. http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?RemoteStreaming -Peter -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver BottleRocket FuzzyTime SaverSwitcher SleepFade StatusFirst VolumeLock ------------------------------------------------------------------------ peterw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2107 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39991 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
