Experience with DigitalOcean & UFW

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Immediately after locking myself out I contacted support.  They told me 
they could not help. At that point I destroyed my droplet.  I had not 
done much so it was not a great loss.  Another learning experience....



On 2022-06-16 08:17, Thomas Scott via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> I don't remember, but I feel like DO wants you to use SSH keys by
> default, and opens 22 by default. You should be able to add keys from
> the console. Can you telnet to port 22 and not get a "port closed"
> message?
> 
> Best Regards,
> -Thomas Scott
> 
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 10:27 AM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
> <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
> 
>> I am creating a "Droplet" on DigitalOcean and discovered something I
>> 
>> want to share and it also prompts a question.
>> 
>> I enabled ufw and opened a few ports.  Then I logged out.  When I
>> tried
>> to login later I realized I had not opened port 22 SSH.  I thought
>> they
>> had done that for me.
>> 
>> I contacted support and they told me they could not help because
>> they do
>> not have access to my server.
>> 
>> 1) I learned one more thing - ensure port 22 is open.  Life seems to
>> be
>> perpetual learning.
>> 
>> 2) My question is if someone blocks port 22 or whatever they set SSH
>> to
>> how can support or anyone else open that port?
>> 
>> Thanks!!
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