Gufw Firewall
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https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UFW Enable and Disable Enable UFW To turn UFW on with the default set of rules: sudo ufw enable To check the status of UFW: sudo ufw status verbose The output should be like this: youruser@yourcomputer:~$ sudo ufw status verbose [sudo] password for youruser: Status: active Logging: on (low) Default: deny (incoming), allow (outgoing) New profiles: skip youruser@yourcomputer:~$ Note that by default, deny is being applied to incoming. There are exceptions, which can be found in the output of this command: sudo ufw show raw You can also read the rules files in /etc/ufw (the files whose names end with .rules). Disable UFW To disable ufw use: sudo ufw disable