Connecting to the Dashboard remotely

[Cybernut1]

@Great_Scott - Why do you say that the dashboard is not secure? If you have setup a reasonably strong password, the dashboard is quite secure. Yes, I agree, making the dashboard remotely accessible is not a good idea for less tech-savvy folks, and definitely not needed to access files on the NAS, but I do not agree with your broad statement that the dashboard is not secure (for added security you can access it using https connection, as long as port 443 is forwarded on the router). I myself have left my dashboard open for remote access for over a year (but I also have enabled logging on the http server of my EX2) and yes, there are daily intrusion attempts in the logs, but nobody has been able to do actually break into anything. I also have enabled remote SSH access to my EX2 and so far it has not been breached either. Here are two links to my posts from last year about logging EX2’s web server and SSH daemon:

Logging shell break-in attempts

Given the recent ShellShock security vulnerability in the news, I thought I’d post this. Little background first. I have been using my EX2 primarily as an SFTP server for the past 7 months that I owned it, and that’s because I was able to figure out a way to enable non-root user access to the shell. That was tricky and requires compiling custom firmware. But assuming nearly 100% of users are not going to do that or be able to do that even if they wanted to, most folks, at best can just access t…

Enabling logging for lighttpd web server

EDIT: Please ignore the below instructions as these have now been rendered obsolete with the switch from lighttpd to a different webserver (Apache) with the release of firmware version 1.05.21 on 10/27/14. I may create another post with updated instructions for http logging using Apache, IF I have the time in future. This is a followup post to my recent post titled ’ Share your files with friends using http links’. I wanted to share how you can enable logging on, if you chose to turn the web se…