Re: Could we have Portmaster (an open source application firewall)?

2022-11-01 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Nov 1, 2022 at 10:26 AM Ben Beasley wrote: > I haven’t looked deeply into Portmaster, but in general: > To add to Ben's nice summary, I'm potentially interested but TBH I have two $DAYJOBS and have never packaged a GO project to date. Hopefully someone else will chime in? Thanks,

Re: Could we have Portmaster (an open source application firewall)?

2022-11-01 Thread Ben Beasley
Packaging Guidelines, and if there is someone who has the time and interest to package and maintain it in Fedora, then it would of course be a welcome addition. – Ben Beasley (FAS music) On Tue, Nov 1, 2022, at 6:42 AM, martin luther wrote: > https://github.com/safing/portmaster > it is a firewa

Could we have Portmaster (an open source application firewall)?

2022-11-01 Thread martin luther
https://github.com/safing/portmaster it is a firewall app with nice gui just like glasswire but it is opensource with some vpn features also hence it can be included they provide a .rpm app so it can easily published in fedora repo https://updates.safing.io/latest/linux_amd64/packages/portmaster

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-09-04 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
handle this: > > 1. have every app bind to null, and hope the firewall filters out > dangerous accesses. You'll get a *lot* of app collisions, because every > app will fight for 443 ownership. And as soon as the firewall is down, > the king has no clothes. > > 2. have every app bin

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-09-04 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
via vlans, binding, teaming, etc). Having every single networked app handle dynamic network changes on its own does not scale. There are not so many ways to handle this: 1. have every app bind to null, and hope the firewall filters out dangerous accesses. You'll get a *lot* of app collisions

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-09-03 Thread Kyle Marek
ption on ports. So, while the software may be open to all > ports > because of the code itself, that is often not the intention. Many programs > just bind all interfaces, and expect that you'll configure your firewall to > whatever should be able to access the network service it's

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-09-02 Thread Christopher
On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 12:26 AM John Harris wrote: > There is not a single service in Fedora that is broken by the firewall > running. You simply have to open the port before it can be accessed from a > remote system, which is by design. Basic access control, a security feature.

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-09-02 Thread John Harris
expected to result in the service > being up and running. If you 'systemctl start' your service and the > firewall breaks it, that's just annoying. > > Michael There is not a single service in Fedora that is broken by the firewall running. You simply have to open the port before it can

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-09-02 Thread Sheogorath via devel
is works, at all. First, let's go ahead and >>>> address the >>>> idea that "if the firewall blocks it, the app breaks, so it's the >>>> firewall's >>>> fault": It's not. If the firewall has not been opened, that just >>>> means

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-09-02 Thread Sheogorath via devel
> >>>> >>>> Well the thing is, blocknig ports tends to break applications that want >>>> to use those ports. We're not going to do that, period. It also doesn't >>>> really accomplish anything: either your app or service needs network >>>> access

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-09-01 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
ba, > > or Tomcat, Jenkins, or anything else. > > Well that's why installed network services are disabled by default in > Fedora, unless the package receives an exception from FESCo. This isn't > Debian where installing a package is expected to result in the service > being

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-09-01 Thread mcatanzaro
in Fedora, unless the package receives an exception from FESCo. This isn't Debian where installing a package is expected to result in the service being up and running. If you 'systemctl start' your service and the firewall breaks it, that's just annoying. Michael ___

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-31 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 7:04 PM John Harris wrote: > > On Friday, August 30, 2019 5:16:25 AM MST Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > > On Aug 29, 2019, at 9:41 PM, John Harris wrote: > > > > > > > > >> On Thursday, August 29, 2019 8:12:22 AM MST Dan Book wrote: > > >> I would agree, but people do

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-31 Thread John Harris
On Friday, August 30, 2019 5:16:25 AM MST Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > On Aug 29, 2019, at 9:41 PM, John Harris wrote: > > > > > >> On Thursday, August 29, 2019 8:12:22 AM MST Dan Book wrote: > >> I would agree, but people do install multiple desktops after installing > >> a > >> spin. Such a

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-31 Thread John Harris
gt; > The potential compromise I see might involve exposing firewall zones in > some well-considered and thoughtful way, including a rethink of what is > blocked and allowed by the zones, and an understanding of what the goal > of having each zone is. That would have to be done in both gn

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-31 Thread John Harris
t bind all interfaces, and expect that you'll configure your firewall to whatever should be able to access the network service it's serving. Programs that don't intend to listen on every interface generally don't bind only to one interface, though they should. Especially not proprietary softwa

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-30 Thread mcatanzaro
be implemented without much complexity, though. Thank you for giving the idea at least a little consideration, though, and not outright dismissing it. The potential compromise I see might involve exposing firewall zones in some well-considered and thoughtful way, including a rethink of what is blocked

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-30 Thread mcatanzaro
If anybody with a good memory or interest in thread archaeology wants to investigate, I believe there was actually some problem with some specific tools used by web developers that were broken by the previous firewall configuration. Michael ___ devel ma

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-30 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 06:54:48PM -0700, John Harris wrote: > Workstation is only the primary product because somebody decided GNOME was > the best default. This should be reconsidered, so that the various Spins, This is backwards. We (the Fedora Board) at the time, asked for a team to develop

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-30 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
> On Aug 29, 2019, at 9:41 PM, John Harris wrote: > >> On Thursday, August 29, 2019 8:12:22 AM MST Dan Book wrote: >> I would agree, but people do install multiple desktops after installing a >> spin. Such a use case needs to be considered (not sure if it matters, >> though). > > This is

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-30 Thread Björn Persson
John Harris wrote: > Thing is, binding a port and expecting it to be open to every network > interface you've got are two very different things. Once again John Harris is completely wrong. The bind system call is precisely how a program specifies which network interfaces it wants to open a

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-29 Thread John Harris
On Thursday, August 29, 2019 3:50:19 AM MST Iñaki Ucar wrote: > Responding to the first message because I'm not interested in further > discussion. It's clear to me that there will be no agreement in this > matter unless there are reasonable potential alternatives. Therefore, > this message is

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-29 Thread John Harris
On Thursday, August 29, 2019 1:11:02 PM MST Chris Murphy wrote: > On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 12:24 AM Chris Murphy > wrote: > > > > > > Debian has a permissive firewall > > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianFirewall > > > And Ubuntu, Mint, elementary, MX Linux, S

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-29 Thread John Harris
really accomplish anything: either your app or service needs network > > access and you have whitelisted it (in which case the firewall provides > > no security), or it needs network access and you have not whitelisted > > it (in which case your firewall breaks your app/service).

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-29 Thread John Harris
On Thursday, August 29, 2019 5:29:32 PM MST Christopher wrote: > Workstation is the primary product. Some choose that not for GNOME... > but because they want to start with the most base product and > customize from there. If you start with a Spin, you may get something > pre-configured in a very

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-29 Thread John Harris
> >>> It might be okay to be a GNOME-specific thing, as that's the only spin > >>> of > >>> Fedora which is affected by this decision. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> The default firewall config affects every user of that edition,

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-29 Thread John Harris
On Thursday, August 29, 2019 8:12:22 AM MST Dan Book wrote: > I would agree, but people do install multiple desktops after installing a > spin. Such a use case needs to be considered (not sure if it matters, > though). This is definitely not the ideal scenario, especially not from the case of the

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-29 Thread Christopher
ic thing, as that's the only spin of > >>> Fedora which is affected by this decision. > >>> > >> The default firewall config affects every user of that edition, even > >> if they never use GNOME (or even use graphical boot). So, I don't know > >> i

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-29 Thread Christopher
On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 4:12 PM Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 12:24 AM Chris Murphy wrote: > > > > Debian has a permissive firewall > > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianFirewall > > And Ubuntu, Mint, elementary, MX Linux, Solus, pop!_OS, as well. By

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-29 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 12:24 AM Chris Murphy wrote: > > Debian has a permissive firewall > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianFirewall And Ubuntu, Mint, elementary, MX Linux, Solus, pop!_OS, as well. By permissive, they all accept everything. Nothing is rejected or dropped. Mageia, and op

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-29 Thread Japheth Cleaver
On 8/29/2019 8:10 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2019-08-28 at 23:13 -0400, Christopher wrote: On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 8:56 PM John Harris wrote: It might be okay to be a GNOME-specific thing, as that's the only spin of Fedora which is affected by this decision. The default firewall

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-29 Thread Christophe de Dinechin
it (in which case the firewall provides > no security), or it needs network access and you have not whitelisted > it (in which case your firewall breaks your app/service). In no case > does it increase your security without breaking your app, right? Unless > you have malware installed

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-29 Thread Dan Book
p. > > > > > > It might be okay to be a GNOME-specific thing, as that's the only spin > of > > > Fedora which is affected by this decision. > > > > > > > The default firewall config affects every user of that edition, even > > if they never use GNOME (or eve

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-29 Thread Adam Williamson
a dialogue as a "first-boot" action, but that seems like it'd > > > be a very GNOME-specific thing, and firewalld is not specific to the > > > WM/Desktop. > > > > It might be okay to be a GNOME-specific thing, as that's the only spin of > > Fedora which is

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-29 Thread Iñaki Ucar
get accepted and implemented, we could eventually bring back this discussion and reach some consensus. Iñaki On Mon, 26 Aug 2019 at 14:40, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: > > Hello all. > > Is it okay that firewall is completely disabled by default (opened all > ports 1025-6

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-29 Thread Chris Murphy
Debian has a permissive firewall https://wiki.debian.org/DebianFirewall ___ 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

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-29 Thread John Harris
nstallations and configuration using the same Workstation > ISO, and you can also just open a new TTY (e.g. Ctrl+Alt+F3), > customize your system, and reboot without ever logging in to GNOME. I don't know how that would possibly pull in the GNOME Spin's firewall config, if you select a diff

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-28 Thread Christopher
tion > > Edition issue with /etc/firewalld/firewalld.conf's DefaultZone option. > > How is that possible? The workstation installer installs GNOME, right? Can you > select something else in those ISOs' Anaconda config? If so, why would it > still pull in GNOME's firewall zone? [SNIP] We'r

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-28 Thread John Harris
ible? The workstation installer installs GNOME, right? Can you select something else in those ISOs' Anaconda config? If so, why would it still pull in GNOME's firewall zone? > Funny, the FedoraServer.xml file still has a description "For use in > public areas" while FedoraWork

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-28 Thread Christopher
On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 11:23 PM John Harris wrote: > > On Wednesday, August 28, 2019 8:13:59 PM MST Christopher wrote: > > The default firewall config affects every user of that edition, even > > if they never use GNOME (or even use graphical boot). So, I don't know > > i

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-28 Thread John Harris
On Wednesday, August 28, 2019 8:13:59 PM MST Christopher wrote: > The default firewall config affects every user of that edition, even > if they never use GNOME (or even use graphical boot). So, I don't know > if this would be adequate. This only affects GNOME users. Workstation = G

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-28 Thread Christopher
> > be a very GNOME-specific thing, and firewalld is not specific to the > > WM/Desktop. > > It might be okay to be a GNOME-specific thing, as that's the only spin of > Fedora which is affected by this decision. > The default firewall config affects every user of tha

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-28 Thread James Cassell
On Wed, Aug 28, 2019, at 8:59 PM, John Harris wrote: > On Wednesday, August 28, 2019 1:35:32 PM MST Colin Walters wrote: > > FWIW, > > > > For Fedora CoreOS we don't enable a firewall by default; see > > https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker/issues/26 > &

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-28 Thread John Harris
On Wednesday, August 28, 2019 1:35:32 PM MST Colin Walters wrote: > FWIW, > > For Fedora CoreOS we don't enable a firewall by default; see > https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker/issues/26 > > (Neither for that matter does Fedora Cloud: > https://pagure.io/f

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-28 Thread John Harris
On Wednesday, August 28, 2019 5:46:58 PM MST Christopher wrote: > A similar idea that would keep it separate from the installer might be > to offer a dialogue as a "first-boot" action, but that seems like it'd > be a very GNOME-specific thing, and firewalld is not specific to the > WM/Desktop. It

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-28 Thread John Harris
t related to the firewall, though they may include changes to the firewall (and blacklisting packages, etc). That's something much better suited for RHEL and CentOS though. Firewalls are useful everywhere. > Again, hyperbole, that cannot be taken seriously, because it does not > withstan

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-28 Thread Christopher
eature that was rejected by FESCo > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SecurityPolicyInTheInstaller > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-March/19.html I think the fact that the Workstation WG's proceeded with an effectively disabled firewall after FESCo rejected

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-28 Thread John Harris
On Wednesday, August 28, 2019 12:59:17 PM MST Christopher wrote: > Yeah, obviously that would be bad. Please don't simply dismiss a > serious suggestion, because it would be bad in other scenarios or if > taken to the extreme. This is one specific suggestion, not a proposal > to accept all similar

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-28 Thread John Harris
ous working group misunderstand something previously? It seem so. > Has new information come to light? Yes, more people have realized what was done by the GNOME spin. > Has the GUI firewall app made UI/Ux improvements that might sway the > working group to re-evaluate? Possibly, but that doesn

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-28 Thread John Harris
On Wednesday, August 28, 2019 9:05:00 AM MST Tony Nelson wrote: > Properly packaged Fedora software uses either the D-Bus interface > at runtime or firewall-cmd in a scriptlet at install time to open any > needed ports This is not actually the case. No software, to my knowled

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-28 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 12:57 PM Christopher wrote: > > At the very least, it'd be nice if anaconda had an option to select > the default firewalld zone during installation, A somewhat related feature that was rejected by FESCo https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SecurityPolicyInTheInstaller

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-28 Thread Colin Walters
FWIW, For Fedora CoreOS we don't enable a firewall by default; see https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker/issues/26 (Neither for that matter does Fedora Cloud: https://pagure.io/fedora-kickstarts/blob/master/f/fedora-cloud-base.ks#_36

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-28 Thread Dan Book
On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 4:27 PM Adam Williamson wrote: > That is talking about the whole idea that having a firewall enabled by > default is not as important if there are no listening services by > default; at that point you can make the argument that installing a > service

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-28 Thread Adam Williamson
the Workstation WG to properly research and > develop a sensible firewall solution and will stay out of the way. (+5, > 3, -0) (sgallagh, 18:40:04) > """ > > <https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/1372#comment-27998> > > It reads to me like an affirmation of

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-28 Thread Christopher
t has been explicitly stated in this thread that they have never had > any intention of doing anything further, even though that was FESCo's clear > expectation. > > > In January 2015, FESCo said: > > """ > AGREED: FESCo trusts the Workstation WG to properly resear

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-28 Thread mcatanzaro
of doing anything further, even though that was FESCo's clear expectation. In January 2015, FESCo said: """ AGREED: FESCo trusts the Workstation WG to properly research and develop a sensible firewall solution and will stay out of the way. (+5, 3, -0) (sgallagh, 18:40:0

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-28 Thread Christopher
On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 1:01 PM Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 9:36 AM John Harris wrote: > > > Essentially disabling the firewall falls under having a "bad design for > > everyone else". Disabling the firewall is something that could be con

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-28 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 9:36 AM John Harris wrote: > Essentially disabling the firewall falls under having a "bad design for > everyone else". Disabling the firewall is something that could be considered > hostile to the user. This is hyperbole, and turning up the volume

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-28 Thread Tony Nelson
document, so one can read it > not in part, but in full? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Workstation/Technical_Specification The discussion and decision to not include firewall-config (GUI configuration application for firewalld) by default, five years ago https://lists.fedoraprojec

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-28 Thread John Harris
On Wednesday, August 28, 2019 2:45:37 AM MST Björn Persson wrote: > If an attacker guesses your passphrase, then it's your weak passphrase > that allows them to break in. No. Having it wide open to the network means it can be broken, even through brute force if necessary. > (That said, I'd be

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-28 Thread John Harris
; > > > > On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 4:22 AM, John Harris < > > > > joh...@splentity.com> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > No, that is not how this works, at all. First, let's go ahead > > > > > and > >

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-28 Thread Jiri Eischmann
t; > wrote: > > > > No, that is not how this works, at all. First, let's go ahead > > > > and > > > > address the > > > > idea that "if the firewall blocks it, the app breaks, so it's > > > > the > > > > firew

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-28 Thread Björn Persson
John Harris wrote: > Consider this. Our default ssh config, under your firewall config, would > allow > any system on any network your system is connected to to break in. Only if you have chosen a worthless passphrase. Fedora's default SSHD configuration – on those spins where SSHD is

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-28 Thread John Harris
On Tuesday, August 27, 2019 10:03:51 PM MST Chris Murphy wrote: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Workstation/Technical_Specification > > The discussion and decision to not include firewall-config (GUI > configuration application for firewalld) by default, five years

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-28 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2019-08-27 at 17:11 -0700, John Harris wrote: > Workstation ships with sshd enabled by default, unless something has changed. It doesn't. This was definitely a conscious decision related to the firewall policy. See /usr/lib/systemd/system-preset/80-workstation.preset , where s

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread Chris Murphy
art, but in full? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Workstation/Technical_Specification The discussion and decision to not include firewall-config (GUI configuration application for firewalld) by default, five years ago https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/desk...@lists.

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread Christopher
f/fedora-release.spec > > The Workstation technical specification document says in part: Where is the full technical specification document, so one can read it not in part, but in full? > > A firewall in its default configuration may not interfere with the > normal operation of

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread Tony Nelson
the graphical tool the main way of interacting with the firewall, and it was the cli tool that came later, yet as far as I recall, Workstation never shipped with this GUI tool. The package is firewall-config. On XFCE, App menu -> Administration -> Firewall. Perfectly normal graphical fi

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread Chris Murphy
2015 Dennis Gilmore - 23-0.4 - add preset file for workstation to disable sshd https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/fedora-release/blob/f23/f/fedora-release.spec The Workstation technical specification document says in part: A firewall in its default configuration may not interfere with the norm

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread John Harris
On Tuesday, August 27, 2019 5:15:52 PM MST Chris Murphy wrote: > > > That actually isn't clear at all. And I am the end user and sysadmin. > > > I'm at home, I have my own AP, but none of the equipment is under my > > > direct control, it's centrally managed by a company I don't even pay. > > >

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread John Harris
; > > Case 4: "Developer in a Large Organization" > > > > > > > > Are those people we believe do not understand the concepts associated > > with firewalls? > > > This is exactly what I was alluding to upthread with "developers are a > larg

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread Chris Murphy
> > That actually isn't clear at all. And I am the end user and sysadmin. > > I'm at home, I have my own AP, but none of the equipment is under my > > direct control, it's centrally managed by a company I don't even pay. > > So, is it trustworthy? Maybe. Maybe not. I have no practical way of > >

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread John Harris
t;>> On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 4:22 AM, John Harris > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>>> No, that is not how this works, at all. First, let's go ahead and > >>>> address the > >>>> idea that "if the firewall blocks it, the app

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread John Harris
nderstand what that means > or how it manifests. I run all kinds of real software on macOS and it > works fine. > > > > This sounds like a misunderstanding as to what firewalls, and the various > > types of firewalls, are. By default, Fedora uses firewalld, which is not > >

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 5:30 PM John Harris 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

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread Chris Murphy
o run real software ... I don't understand what that means or how it manifests. I run all kinds of real software on macOS and it works fine. > This sounds like a misunderstanding as to what firewalls, and the various > types of firewalls, are. By default, Fedora uses firewalld, which is

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread Chris Murphy
This is exactly what I was alluding to upthread with "developers are a large target audience, in particular for Workstation" They're clearly safer with FedoraWorkstation zone (default) enabled than with the firewall disabled. I can't estimate how much safer. I definitely do not want to

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread Japheth Cleaver
the idea that "if the firewall blocks it, the app breaks, so it's the firewall's fault": It's not. If the firewall has not been opened, that just means it can't be accessed by remote systems until you EXPLICITLY open that port, with the correct protocol, on your firewall. That's FINE. That'

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread Luya Tshimbalanga
MacOS has firewall disabled by default on every iteration. Luya On 2019-08-27 4:23 p.m., John Harris wrote: > On Tuesday, August 27, 2019 8:23:01 AM MST Chris Murphy wrote: >> On Tue, Aug > 27, 2019 at 6:22 AM Neal Gompa wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> T

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread John Harris
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 cowo

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread John Harris
On Tuesday, August 27, 2019 8:23:01 AM MST Chris Murphy wrote: > On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 6:22 AM Neal Gompa wrote: > > > > > > > The other major non-Linux operating systems do. Both Microsoft Windows > > and Apple macOS ship with active firewalls by default.

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread John Harris
nfine that connection to the public zone. > > > > Yeah, the WIFI case can be as simple as that: let the use choose the > default zone. Public means closed firewall, otherwise the workstation > zone can be as it is now. This protects the user from big mistakes as > unintend

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread John Harris
ecks are usually done by > firewalls, hence my emphasis on making sure users don't start to disable > the whole firewall because it is "easier". Well, some of the IP header checks are done in the kernel, before they get to the firewall module(s) firewalld uses under the hood (I a

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread John Harris
ssume that it's > > > malicious. > > > You executed untrusted code. It's already past your firewall. Game > > > over, > > > you're infected. You're closing the stable door after the horse has > > > bolted. > > > > > > > > Any a

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread John Harris
I'm not sure why this isn't clear, but the examples that I provided are far from the only aspects, and I notice you're only addressing the ones that require the user to manually run something. Consider this. Our default ssh config, under your firewall config, would allow any system on any

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread Adam Williamson
> > address the > > > idea that "if the firewall blocks it, the app breaks, so it's the > > > firewall's > > > fault": It's not. If the firewall has not been opened, that just > > > means it > > > can't be accessed by remote systems until you EXPLICIT

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread Chris Murphy
t come from, what exactly happens > > >> by accident, and how would a packet filter stop it? > > > > > >It could come from anywhere, that's not the point. A *firewall* would stop > > >it from doing anything too harmful: Opening up the system to the world by > &

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread John Harris
would a packet filter stop it? > > > >It could come from anywhere, that's not the point. A *firewall* would stop > >it from doing anything too harmful: Opening up the system to the world by > >binding a port, or listening on a UDP port. > > If it could come from anywhere, then we

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, 27 Aug 2019 at 13:01, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: > > On 27.08.2019 18:14, Björn Persson wrote: > > If it could come from anywhere, then we must assume that it's malicious. > > You executed untrusted code. It's already past your firewall. Game over, > > you're

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread Vitaly Zaitsev via devel
On 27.08.2019 18:14, Björn Persson wrote: > If it could come from anywhere, then we must assume that it's malicious. > You executed untrusted code. It's already past your firewall. Game over, > you're infected. You're closing the stable door after the horse has > bolted. Any applica

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread David Kaufmann
, and >> software not run/installed via package manager will give the impression >> of "just not working". > > Why in the world would somebody from the security team recommend opening a > port on the firewall as the software is installed, before it's even > config

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread Björn Persson
John Harris wrote: >On Tuesday, August 27, 2019 5:36:20 AM MST Björn Persson wrote: >> Please elaborate. Where does the script come from, what exactly happens >> by accident, and how would a packet filter stop it? > >It could come from anywhere, that's not the point. A

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread Artem Tim
For this who can't change their default zone in firewall after installing Fedora Workstation completely block all ports may result in worse things, like completely turn off firewall, because they can't run their online video games for example and some one always advised them to do this. We

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 6:22 AM Neal Gompa wrote: > > The other major non-Linux operating systems do. Both Microsoft Windows > and Apple macOS ship with active firewalls by default. The firewall on macOS is disabled by default. Therefore I can't agree with any assessment that Fedora Wo

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread Jiri Eischmann
Iñaki Ucar píše v Út 27. 08. 2019 v 16:17 +0200: > On Tue, 27 Aug 2019 at 14:20, wrote: > > The main competitor of Fedora Workstation is Ubuntu. Ubuntu ships > > without a firewall enabled and nobody considers this a critical > > vulnerability. Now: why is that...? >

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread Louis Lagendijk
use you trust them. As I proposed on another email, bring > back the NetworkManager zones UI to GNOME Settings, simplified with > being an option to confine that connection to the public zone. > Yeah, the WIFI case can be as simple as that: let the use choose the default zone. Public

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread Iñaki Ucar
e resources, yes or no, that's it. If you click "no" or just ignore that and close the networking applet, the default is "public", and the firewall is closed. At any point, if you go back to the networking applet in the task bar, you see "disconnect" and a "

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread John Harris
>> > >>> On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 2:37 PM, Iñaki Ucar > >>> wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>> There's no need to write "a new style of firewall". It would be as > >>>> easy as asking the user once whethe

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread Iñaki Ucar
On Tue, 27 Aug 2019 at 14:20, wrote: > > The main competitor of Fedora Workstation is Ubuntu. Ubuntu ships without a > firewall enabled and nobody considers this a critical vulnerability. Now: why > is that...? 1. Ubuntu Server ships without a firewall enabled. Do you think t

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread Robert Marcano
On 8/27/19 10:03 AM, John Harris wrote: On Tuesday, August 27, 2019 5:35:08 AM MST Robert Marcano wrote: On 8/27/19 8:18 AM, mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote: On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 2:37 PM, Iñaki Ucar wrote: There's no need to write "a new style of firewall". It would be as easy

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