Idea #10556: Include GUFW as a GUI firewall frontend.

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Written by rsingh the 1 Jul 08 at 11:06. Category: Internet & Networking.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New

Description

One of the things included in Hardy was ufw (Uncomplicated firewall wall), but everything has to be done via CLI. There is a very nice GUI frontend being developed for it and it would be nice if it is bundled as a default package.

Links to the project:
https://launchpad.net/gui-ufw
http://gufw.tuxfamily.org/index.html

Tags: firewall gufw gui internet ufw

Developer comments

Due to a bug, the number of votes is not valid. It should be less than 100.

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Eldmannen wrote on the 1 Jul 08 at 11:58

$ sudo ufw enable

Vadim P. wrote on the 1 Jul 08 at 13:39

Please edit your description, we've moved from google code to launchpad:

https://launchpad.net/gui-ufw

(and hey, someone already made a smartass comment. So early on!)

Eldmannen wrote on the 1 Jul 08 at 18:37

So Gufw is a frontend for ufw which is a frontend for iptables which is a frontend for netfilter?

Vadim P. wrote on the 1 Jul 08 at 18:49

Yes, as the website says :)

Vadim P. wrote on the 1 Jul 08 at 18:50

Actually, oops, I removed from the website. But if you know what iptables and netfilter are, chances are, you have no use for gufw.

asaz989 wrote on the 1 Jul 08 at 23:33

Honestly, if you want a graphical front-end, there's no reason it has to go through ufw (like Eldmannen said). E.g. firestarter or something. Although if gufw's GUI is more intuitive than firestarter's...

uaneme wrote on the 2 Jul 08 at 08:29

+1

and also something like this in a Aptitude kinda GUI that works in a terminal window.

I like terminal access but i just can't get all those commands into my mind, for common task a GUI works better for me, and that way i get more memory space for commands that are less used.

This way you can help others more easy with finetuning their system without commandlines and their vunerability to tricky little mistakes (like closing port 12 instead of 21)

nand (Brainstorm admin) wrote on the 2 Jul 08 at 13:52

Damn.
I removed a invalid duplicate link to a older 1100-votes idea, and it seems the number of votes here was not updated.

The real number of votes should be inferior to 100.

Sorry!

dragoninsane wrote on the 3 Jul 08 at 08:23

hi,dev@nand.
i dont believe the comment,actually people most of brainstormers have peculiar habit of voting the ideas which has postive votes not negative votes,even it is good one.so
that bug of 1000 votes created mess.i wasnt satisfied with my vote too and next consequence of these votes made brainstorm rank flicker.please be calm when editing brainstorm.

nand (Brainstorm admin) wrote on the 3 Jul 08 at 16:20

For your information, the votes will be re-updated at the next update, when the bugfix will be uploaded.
Meanwhile, well..., we will have to live with this weird one :)

ubunteando wrote on the 4 Jul 08 at 14:14

Console use should be use to a minimal admin-level functions. I totally agree there should be a way to enable/disable ufw through a UI... Trough some kind of integrated security section. Maybe adding a link to the UFG GUI in the Administration panel.

dragoninsane wrote on the 5 Jul 08 at 21:42

eureka!!!dev i found the original idea its IDEA#22

darrena wrote on the 12 Jul 08 at 20:47

Some comments for everyone who recommended Firestarter:
1) Firestarter is dead upstream
2) Firestarter is per interface so you have to reconfigure it each time you switch between wired or wireless for example

A GUI really is needed for less experienced users, I don't know that it needs to be installed by default but it should at least be in Universe and hopefully main so people can install it easily.

Vadim P. wrote on the 12 Jul 08 at 20:55

http://gufw.tuxfamily.org/ ?

MakotoTheKnight wrote on the 24 Jul 08 at 01:30

I liked Firestarter since it provided a frontend to the maddening iptables, and I liked ufw for the same reasons. It didn't have to be a UI.

Now that I notice that the newest version was released in *2005*, I'll throw my support behind this. Configuring firewalls was made simple thanks to the CLI with ufw, but this makes it much less of a hassle.

*Sigh*...I still don't see the point...

Thelasko wrote on the 28 Jul 08 at 16:20

"*Sigh*...I still don't see the point... "
Firestarter has some major issues with Samba, and seeing that it's dead upstream it's time to develop something new that works.

I've used GUFW and I must say it is superior to Firestarter.

rogeriopvl wrote on the 24 Aug 08 at 22:37

Firestarter is a dead project.
Noob users need something simpler to turn the firewall on. ufw is simple for us, but not for the average joe user.

I support the idea of having Gufw by default in Ubuntu.

rmn wrote on the 30 Aug 08 at 08:20

there is a great example of gui firewall at:

http://www.pardus.org.tr/eng/projects/firewall/index.html

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