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Ubuntu 20.04 Essentials

By : Neil Smyth
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Ubuntu 20.04 Essentials

By: Neil Smyth

Overview of this book

Ubuntu is undeniably one of the most highly regarded and widely used Debian-based Linux distributions available today. Thanks to its ease of use and reliability, Ubuntu has a loyal following of Linux users and an active community of developers. Ubuntu 20.04 Essentials is designed to take you through the installation, use, and administration of the Ubuntu 20.04 distribution in detail. For beginners, the book covers topics such as operating system installation, the basics of the GNOME desktop environment, configuring email and web servers, and installing packages and system updates. Additional installation topics such as dual booting with Microsoft Windows are also covered along with crucial security topics such as configuring a firewall and user and group administration. For the experienced user, the book delves into topics such as remote desktop access, the Cockpit web interface, logical volume management (LVM), disk partitioning, and swap management. Further, it also explores KVM virtualization, Secure Shell (SSH), Linux containers, and file sharing using both Samba and NFS to provide a thorough overview of this enterprise-class operating system.
Table of Contents (38 chapters)
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Index

17.4 Managing firewalld using firewall-config

If you have access to the graphical desktop environment, the firewall may also be configured using the firewall-config tool. Though not installed by default, firewall-config may be installed as follows:

# apt install firewall-config

When launched, the main firewall-config screen appears as illustrated in Figure 17-1:

Figure 17-1

The key areas of the tool can be summarized as follows:

A - Displays all of the currently active interfaces and the zones to which they are assigned. To assign an interface to a different zone, select it from this panel, click on the Change Zone button and select the required zone from the resulting dialog.

B - Controls whether the information displayed and any changes made within the tool apply to the runtime or permanent rules.

C - The list of zones, services or IPSets configured on the system. The information listed in this panel depends on the selection made from toolbar F. Selecting...