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Setting up UFW

Setting up UFW - Linux Tutorial

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Setting up UFW

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- Now let's get into the lab for UFW. We're going to split this lab into two sublessons. In this lab we're going to show how to install UFW, enable the UFW service, enable the UFW firewall itself, and create some rules. So, if you look at the screen you'll see I'm working at Lab 22 - UFW, and we'll get to work on that now. It says here I'll be testing on a Debian server as root, but I'm actually going to work on an Ubuntu server. So, last minute change here. So, we'll bring up Ubuntu, and I've booted that up. This is Ubuntu 22.04, and we'll log in as root. And welcome, we are in, awesome. So, by default UFW is installed into Ubuntu, but we can check that just by typing the UFW command. It says error, not enough arguments, so that means it recognizes it. But if you need it you can install it with an apt install ufw. So, for example, if you're using Debian server feel free to do that. The lab will work essentially the same way on both distros. After that, we want to make sure it is…

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