On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 1:39 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

look what I found in my quest to open ports: I found a program called ufw which is a 'program for managing a netfilter firewall.' And one of the commands is:

       ufw allow 53
       This  rule  will allow tcp and udp port 53 to any address on this
       host.

Which is the printers port?... of course 631. my search engine is givong me another: 515? But both of my computers print.
Do you know if I can specify more than one port in the command? oops... I just found the correct syntax:
     ufw allow 18:25,50:110,130:150,389:445,631,900:1000,5800:5900,8080,9418
the man page says I'm allowed 15 numbers in there. No spaces, separated by a coma, and ranges ( : ) count as two numbers.

What other ports does the great brain known as PLUG believe is good to open?
I think ufw is basically a program to make iptables easier. Or do you want to give me a tutelage on iptables. I'm willing if you are! Does anyone have any pointers about ufw?

ufw probably is an acronym for unix fire wall. or perhaps ubuntu fire wall.

 

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

As I was looking for a way to open ports (and keep them open) I read that ssh server is not installed by default. So I tried to apt-get it with the following results:

bmike1@Michaels-PC:~$ sudo apt-get install openssh-server
[sudo] password for bmike1:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
openssh-server is already the newest version.
openssh-server set to manually installed.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded.
5 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.
bmike1@Michaels-PC:~$

So it seems that it is installed  but what is this, 'openssh-server set to manually installed.' Does this mean thae packages are there but it isn't installed? How do I install it?

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