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[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (2 children)

UFW is a software firewall. SSH is a way to remote into computers. The joke is they turned on UFW and got locked out of the machine.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure it was a joke.

Everyone did this at some point, but nobody would admit such a silly thing happened to them.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

Never done this to a single server.

Managed to write the “ufw enable, deny all” part of ansislbe script without the “allow 22” part and run it against all my homelab once.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Hehe. I was joking there.

Have done it randomly on my backup raspi 3 so many times 🤣

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

I've been bamboozled