The default in later OpenSSH is 6, which seems too high. If you can't
get your password correct after 3 tries then I think you need help.
Eventually I'd like an easy way to enable blocking of repeated login
attempts at the firewall level. I think it's possible in firewalld.
Vanilla Ubuntu (and Debian actually) defaults to using the official
mirror for security updates rather than country or regional mirrors.
Also, for what it's worth, Ubuntu mirrors didn't always sync these
security archives. I'd prefer to stay closer to vanilla Ubuntu but
also it kinda makes sense to get security updates from the official
source than a mirror (in case of delay or errors).
I'm surprised this worked all these years actually. Since Ansible
version 1.6 it has been possible to use the version_compare filter
instead of doing math logic on strings.
See: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_tests.html
I had removed them from Debian 8 and Ubuntu 14.04 configs last year
when the NSA's Suite B crypto guidelines dropped 128-bit algorithms
but those changes didn't make it to my new Ubuntu 16.04 config.
It is probably overkill and paranoid, but this server is mine, so I
can make those decisions (and I only connect from modern clients).
Automatically uses the best mirror for your location, see:
http://httpredir.debian.org/demo.html
Should be much better than any hardcoded default for most hosts.
Signed-off-by: Alan Orth <alan.orth@gmail.com>
Note: I've only tested this on a Debian container, and you can't
set these sysctls on containers (the host controls them). To make
matters worse, there is no fact to make ansible skip this on hosts
that are running in containers. For now I will just skip it on
hosts that are "virtualization" servers... even though we actually
do have KVM running on Debian on real hardware. *sigh*
Signed-off-by: Alan Orth <alan.orth@gmail.com>
Needed in Ubuntu 15.04 where iptables-persistent is going away. I
have added translations of the current IPv4 and IPv6 iptables rules.
Signed-off-by: Alan Orth <alan.orth@gmail.com>
- Don't run the static files as templates
- Use a separate playbook for related tasks
- Use a template for security.sources.list
Signed-off-by: Alan Orth <alan.orth@gmail.com>
New hosts often fail due to not having an apt_mirror, because there
isn't one defined for their group and their host_vars haven't over-
ridden it.
We want new hosts to deploy successfully, so let's just use a default
apt_mirror if there isn't one defined. Rather have a slow mirror than
a failed deployment. And in any case, Linode can download from KENET's
mirror at 10MB/sec. ;)
Signed-off-by: Alan Orth <alan.orth@gmail.com>
All servers with non-rotating disks (SSDs) should be running noop,
and the rest should be running deadline.
Signed-off-by: Alan Orth <alan.orth@gmail.com>
