On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 5:30 PM John Harris <joh...@splentity.com> 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 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
