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This guide will walk you through a series of steps to configure really basic security for your Raspberry Pi. First create a new user and remove the default pi account.
Create a new user account
sudo useradd -m newuser -G sudo sudo passwd newuser
Then ensure that the new newuser account uses bash. Simply add bin/bash to the newuser account if needed.
sudo vi /etc/passwd
Logout and login as newuser. Make sure everything works for the newuser and then remove pi account.
sudo deluser -remove-home pi
Install Firewall
Install the open source firewall and enable two ports. I like to enable secure shell access (ssh) and file access from my Mac laptop Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) over TCP.
sudo apt-get -y install ufw sudo ufw allow 22 sudo ufw allow 548 sudo ufw enable sudo ufw status
I do this for all of my Raspberry Pi servers. I’m sure more could be done but that’s for later post.