Firestarter

[Jamie Strandboge]

On Sun, 2010-08-29 at 14:10 -0700, Jim Kielman wrote:
> With the included tool for setting the firewall all you have to do is 
> enable the default rule set and it's done. The default rule set blocks 
> almost everything,  and in Windows terms makes the users system seemed 
> to be stealthed. All you need is one simple command:
> 
> sudo ufw enable
> 
> And your done. If the defult rules aren't good enough, you can use gufw 
> for adding additional rules.
> 
gufw is a fine graphical tool but I might also mention you can add rules
with the ufw command-line-interface as well. Eg:

$ sudo ufw allow OpenSSH
$ sudo ufw enable

See 'man ufw' for details.

-- 
Jamie Strandboge             | http://www.canonical.com
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