I just received an email that I have installed a linux server

[BigHead 0]

I received an email that I was going to a Linux server. this is false. I have Always been on windows and will continue to be on windows for a LONG time. I am nervous that someone is trying to hack me and would like to know how to make my installation more secure with HTTPS. any help is appreciated

[Abobader 3470]

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[Luke 42086]

Hi, who was it from? What did it say?

[BigHead 0]

hello Luke

It was from you guys the emby team and said

Confirm Emby Account Link

Hello,

This account has been requested to link to the server ubuntu. Please confirm this action by clicking the link below:

 

IT had a link to click but I did NOT click because this is a hack, I am WINDOWS. This is clearly an attempt to take over my account and I am not very happy about this stuff

I would like to know why I cant use HTTPS in my server settings and if I can would someone show me how to do this.

Everything SHOULD go through https now more than ever.

Thanks for any help and thanks for your reply

[ebr 16195]

Hi.  That isn't a hack.  Someone just entered the wrong user name into the Connect field on their server. (probably "BigHead").  You can safely delete the email and forget about it.  We have that email confirmation precisely so that someone can't randomly connect anyone to their server.

Thanks.

[BigHead 0]

hello

I still want to be able to connect to my emby server with https. would someone please help me to be able to do this?

http is totally unsafe and should not be used anymore

I have been BigHead for around 20 years now on almost every account I have EVER had be it forums email and everything else and yes that is my server user name

I still would like some help to secure my server with a https log in will someone please just help me with that

THANKS

[pwhodges 2014]

There are various ways to get SSL (https) working with Emby.  You'll need to start by getting a domain name and pointing at your server (normally costs a little money - I pay about £15 a year).

(1) You can then acquire a certificate (can be done free or paid-for), and install the certificate into Emby.  Only allow https through your router, and you're done.

(2) You can set up a reverse proxy in front of Emby which does the ssl/https stuff.  In this forum you can find extensive guides on doing this with nginx, IIS, or Caddy (the one I use, and the simplest by a very long shot - it gets the certificate for you and keeps it updated, and also redirects http to https so that only secure connections are allowed - all by default).

(3) You can use CloudFlare in front of your server, which again there are guides in this forum to help you with.

If you read around these and decide the way you'd like to go, people will be able to help you if the existing guides aren't enough.

Paul

[BigHead 0]

hello

to pwhodges

Thank you for the info. I have messed with this some in the past months but have been pre occupied during this pandemic and just wanted to get vaccinated and I have both shots now so maybe soon things will get better. I am a free type of person that thinks everything could and should just be free. I was some of the first people on the internet back when only a very few collages had any information that was useful like some drivers or hard drive programs and word type programs, and everything was free until the DOT COM crash, there was completely Free internet it was only 56K speed but FREE. the world could do this again like with free broadband for all but there is still to much GREED in the world to have Love and Peace and FREE

Again thanks for the information

Peace out

[pwhodges 2014]

4 hours ago, BigHead said:

I was some of the first people on the internet

Me too; I got my first domestic internet connection account in August 1992.

Paul

[Carlo 4561]

On 4/6/2021 at 5:04 AM, pwhodges said:

Me too; I got my first domestic internet connection account in August 1992.

Paul

That was roughly around the time dialup connections were available.  Were you using trumpet winsock back then?
My first connection was dedicated frame relay and I was wholesaling dialup around the time period.

[pwhodges 2014]

Sure, I used Trumpet; but then I wrote a login script for logging in when using OS/2, and Demon Internet adopted that as their OS/2 offering.  Demon started the first domestic dial-up in the UK in June (I think) of 1992, and my customer number was under 3000.

I'd also used proprietary networking including email between the UK and Oslo offices of Norsk Data in the mid-1980s, as well as writing software for communication links, for instance between Norsk Data computers and ICL mainframes (that one became an ND product).

Paul

Edited April 7, 2021 by pwhodges