imthenachoman/How-To-Secure-A-Linux-Server
An evolving how-to guide for securing a Linux server.
31.8k stars · 2.2k forks
This repo isn't software code, so code checks are limited.
Healthy
Healthy: maintained by 4 people in the last 90 days, no known risks.
Why
No rule fired.
What would change this
- A dormant maintenance status, a deprecated or archived package, a successor link, or a critical advisory would change this.
Maintenance
CompleteSteady
- Human commits, 30 days
- 0
- Human commits, 90 days
- 6
- Human commits, 365 days
- 24
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 0%
- Last commit
- Sep 7, 2026 (1 month ago)
- Last human commit
- Sep 7, 2026 (1 month ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 4
- Last release
- none found
- Median PR merge time
- 3 days
Responsiveness: of 1 recent issues, n/a got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.
- Only 1 recent issues can be checked for a response, too few to measure response time.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Personal account
- Commits sampled
- 24 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 2
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 5
- Contributors
- 37
Top committers
- moltenbit: 46% of commits
- imthenachoman: 21% of commits
- Miquel-TA: 8% of commits
- DennisNikolay: 4% of commits
- harshvasudeva: 4% of commits
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- Aug 7, 2019 to Aug 8, 2019: about 55 more stars than usual, peak 35 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jan 11, 2022 to Jan 12, 2022: about 51 more stars than usual, peak 46 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Aug 25, 2022 to Aug 29, 2022: about 313 more stars than usual, peak 199 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- May 13, 2023 to May 31, 2023: about 989 more stars than usual, peak 233 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jul 12, 2023 to Jul 18, 2023: about 141 more stars than usual, peak 68 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Aug 27, 2023 to Sep 11, 2023: about 414 more stars than usual, peak 89 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jan 10, 2024 to Jan 14, 2024: about 64 more stars than usual, peak 28 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Oct 31, 2024 to Nov 3, 2024: about 63 more stars than usual, peak 31 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Aug 1, 2025 to Aug 18, 2025: about 1k more stars than usual, peak 212 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
- Oct 19, 2025 to Oct 24, 2025: about 658 more stars than usual, peak 435 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Nov 3, 2025 to Nov 18, 2025: about 3k more stars than usual, peak 889 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jan 9, 2026 to Jan 14, 2026: about 671 more stars than usual, peak 332 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Mar 4, 2026 to Mar 11, 2026: about 1.1k more stars than usual, peak 739 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- May 11, 2026 to May 21, 2026: about 1.4k more stars than usual, peak 541 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- May 27, 2026 to May 31, 2026: about 244 more stars than usual, peak 104 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jun 21, 2026 to Jun 24, 2026: about 298 more stars than usual, peak 125 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jul 7, 2026 to Jul 15, 2026: about 1.3k more stars than usual, peak 466 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jul 23, 2026 to Jul 26, 2026: about 412 more stars than usual, peak 215 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Aug 30, 2026 to Sep 10, 2026: about 1k more stars than usual, peak 566 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Sep 28, 2026 to Sep 30, 2026: about 248 more stars than usual, peak 170 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- 1 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 14, 2026).
Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.
- The star history looks organic.
- Engagement is not compared for non-code or mirror repositories.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
- Info: The OpenSSF Scorecard for this project is 3 out of 10 (deps.dev). Details
License
- Now
- No license found
- A year ago
- Not known
Packages
No published packages found.
OpenSSF Scorecard: 3.0 out of 10 (via deps.dev).
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[](https://reporadar.ai/imthenachoman/How-To-Secure-A-Linux-Server)Earlier verdicts
- Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
- Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
Computed 11 hours ago · method 2026.10.2