ufw

"ssh will drop" is inacurate

Bug #247177 reported by KarlGoetz
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ufw
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Bug Description

Several locations in the documentation there is phrases like this:
  On /etc/init.d/ufw start and 'ufw enable' the chains are flushed, so ssh will
  drop. This is needed so ufw is in a consistent state. Once the ufw is 'enabled'
  it will insert rules into the existing chains, and therefore not flush the
  chains (but will when modifying a rule or changing the default policy).

While it *may* cause ssh to drop, it is by no means a foregone conclusion.
I suggest this is changed to "may cause ssh to drop" (i'm happy to provide a patch if required).

Places i've seen this:
* man page
* README
* https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuFirewall

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Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) wrote :

Thank you for using ufw and issuing the bug. I have committed changes to the bzr and it will be fixed in the next release of ufw.

Changed in ufw:
status: New → Fix Committed
Changed in ufw:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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