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I am experimenting with using forgejo instead of GitHub for my personal projects. So far I like it, however I would like to make it available to the outside world at some point.

I was wondering what kind of traps I should avoid. The following things come to mind so far:

  • Forgejo Actions seem like a massive potential security risk, however I do not intend to enable sign up for other
  • OpenID appears to be a thing for forgejo, I do not know how it works and it seems like it would allow access to my instance even with registering disabled
  • I would put the instance behind a nginx as reverse proxy, but how do you keep bot traffic to a minimum? Anubis?

I feel like there are a ton of things I have not thought of, which is why I am holding off on making anything available without a VPN so far.

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[–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
  • oauth, and control sign ups via there. Don't let people sign up via forgejo itself.
  • anubis, yeah. Or similar.
  • forgejo actions is an optional component... and forgejo users can bring their own actions server. Of course, it's a risk to them since the server owner could execute code in actions. But yeah.
[–] arschflugkoerper@feddit.org 1 points 7 hours ago

I definitely want to use forgejo actions, but I am mainly worried about random people being able to execute any code on them. Preferably only approved users can do that.