Is adding the Uncomplicated Firewall (UFW) a waste of time?

Ian Bruntlett ian.bruntlett at gmail.com
Tue Aug 18 19:31:40 UTC 2020


Hi Brian,

On Tue, 18 Aug 2020 at 20:22, Brian <ad44 at cityscape.co.uk> wrote:

> Bad habits are easy to acquire. Take a cold shower.
>
> Stop the service, or do 'apt purge ufw'. Test.
>

1. Does this mean that UFW is indeed unnecessary?

2. systemctl is something I don't regularly interact with but I did this...
systemctl status ufw  # showed its status
systemctl stop ufw # stops it

Is that what you meant?

BW,


Ian

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