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Re: openssh-server



On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 09:31:20PM +0300, Semih Ozlem wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> Sorry for lack of details in my response, it was just a tiring day because
> almost the whole day passed and finally the issue is at least temporarily
> resolved, and one gets somewhat forgetful. the firewall was enabled on the
> debian machine, and I am trying to connect to the debian machine from
> windows machine. After disabling firewall in debian machine ssh connection
> from the windows machine to debian machine (where the ssh server is
> located) works. However, I presume that disabling firewall makes the
> machine vulnerable, so this is not entirely a good solution. I am just
> reading firewall rules to set up firewall so that ssh connection would be
> allowed. Apologies if this is too simple a question.

There is no firewall in Debian by default.  Any firewall rules you have
are ones that *you* put in place, using software that *you* installed
and configured.

So, configure it the way you want.


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