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autossh is a nice suggestion
Might be a struggle to teach him iptables but the link was useful, even for me

Thanks

Ask HN: Enable a Linux firewall without locking yourself out?

I have a friend who has an ubuntu server at a remote datacenter (not cloud based unfortunately), the other day he set up the ufw firewall and even though he assures me he added his IP address to the rules, he was locked out when he enabled the firewallsudo ufw allow from his-ip-address sudo ufw allow ssh sudo ufw enableIt ended up costing him over £200 to pay for out-of-hours support for an...

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Re:Ask HN: Does your employer own your blog content? on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @04:57PM (#19558498)
Thanks for your comments

I'm going through my employer agreement to see if there is anything on this subject.

Early on as I was putting together my notes I got the feeling it has the potential for a blog post, so I made the document very generic, and was careful not to mention anything about our internal data, DB versions, OS etc..

So it would be somewhat difficult to re-word the document, maybe I could change the example data, but even then the overlap would be quite large.

Next time I will do a company specific one, and keep the generic examples in my head to do in my own time.

Update: my agreement has a "Social Media Policy" section and so long as I mention that "the views expressed on the blog or Web site are yours (mine) alone and do not represent the views of the company", it would seem I'm OK

Ask HN: Does your employer own your blog content?

As part of my job I was researching MySQL's support for JSON data types. I put together a document to explain to the other devs the various functions that you can use along with simple examples.As the document grew, it seemed that it would make a nice blog post that I could put up somewhere. At which point one of my colleagues pointed out that because this was done during work hours, I dont own...

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