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Firewall SSH guard

The Firewall app actively prevents the most common self-inflicted outage: locking yourself out of SSH.

The guard

  • Enabling UFW auto-allows the SSH port first.
  • Any rule that could block SSH — a deny/reject on the SSH port, a blanket deny, or deleting the active SSH-allow rule — is refused with a confirm prompt.
  • Every firewall action is audited.
Tip
This makes UFW safe to manage from the browser even on a remote box where a mistake would otherwise cut your only way back in.