Hardening new ubuntu installation

[Knute Johnson]

loner wrote:
> Hi ALL!
> 
> I wonder if anybody can advise me about post installation procedure, 
> what should be done to use ubuntu on desktop in everyday life 
> with specially emphasis on security. Advise, howto's or even links please.
> 
> Many thanks!
> 
> loner 
> 
> 

The first an simplest thing you can do is to turn on the firewall.  From 
the command line;

sudo ufw enable

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Knute Johnson

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