Hardening new ubuntu installation

[Florian Diesch]

Knute Johnson <knute2009 at knutejohnson.com> wrote:

> loner wrote:
>>> The first an simplest thing you can do is to turn on the firewall.  From
>>> the command line;
>>>
>>> sudo ufw enable
>> 
>> Is that the best firewall for ubuntu/debian?
>
> There are all sorts of front ends for iptables.  ufw is just a really 
> simple command line option.  If you want a graphical interface there are 
> several other options.  I just use ufw because it is simple to operate 
> and I can use it on my ubuntu server installation.

gufw is a GUI frontend for ufw




   Florian
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