Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

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On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 5:30 PM John Harris <johnmh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, August 27, 2019 8:23:01 AM MST Chris Murphy wrote:
> > The firewall on macOS is disabled by default. Therefore I can't agree
> > with any assessment that Fedora Workstation is, on this point alone,
> > in some sort of vulnerable state outside that of macOS.
>
> Talked to a coworker, who is a heavy MacOS user. She explained that, while the
> firewall is disabled by default, inbound ports are still closed until you
> explicitly open them. That sounds a lot more sane than not running a firewall
> at all.

I don't ever explicitly open them. I check a box called "Remote Login"
and that launches sshd, and I can certainly connect to that box. I
suppose I have implicitly opened the port by checking the box to
enable sshd.


-- 
Chris Murphy
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