Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-22 Thread Florian Weimer
On 12/09/2014 04:32 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote: Is it really so awful to ask a user: Do you want to expose Eclipse to the network ? (of course worded in a better way than my poor English skills can do). Probably not, but it's not implementable in the current state of things. Understood. Do we

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-12 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 11:49 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: Is there an upvote mechanism for that? I'd like to join the chorus if I can. ;-) No. Voting is limited to FESCo members. However, if you feel you have something more to add than the in-numerous responses already in this

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-11 Thread Bastien Nocera
- Original Message - On 10 December 2014 at 11:47, Bastien Nocera bnoc...@redhat.com wrote: snip I see no explanation of why rygel needs a random port or why it cannot supply that information to firewalld. The same goes for any others that have random ports. Because that's

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-11 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 06:03:49AM -0500, Bastien Nocera wrote: There's absolutely no way that firewalld is going to be anything but a Fedora-only thing, which is a first problem in getting any patches to upstream projects. Which is the first problem. Well, it's a CentOS and RHEL thing, and

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-11 Thread Kevin Kofler
Kevin Kofler wrote: I just happened to look at the firewalld default settings, and I was not amused when I noticed this: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/firewalld.git/tree/FedoraWorkstation.xml port protocol=udp port=1025-65535/ port protocol=tcp port=1025-65535/ This firewall is a

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-11 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Is there an upvote mechanism for that? I'd like to join the chorus if I can. ;-) On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 7:06 PM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Kevin Kofler wrote: I just happened to look at the firewalld default settings, and I was not amused when I noticed this:

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-10 Thread Ian Malone
On 10 December 2014 at 00:43, Bastien Nocera bnoc...@redhat.com wrote: - Original Message - On 9 December 2014 at 13:47, Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 01:11:33PM +, Ian Malone wrote: have a proposal for a new spin focused on privacy and

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-10 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 10.12.2014 um 06:08 schrieb Simo Sorce: Most users have no idea what NAT, TCP or ports are sadly yes nor should they! *they should* damned people should stop to evangelize that users do not need to know anything and then design operating systems based on that self-fulfilling prophecy

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-10 Thread Bastien Nocera
- Original Message - On 10 December 2014 at 00:43, Bastien Nocera bnoc...@redhat.com wrote: - Original Message - On 9 December 2014 at 13:47, Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 01:11:33PM +, Ian Malone wrote: have a

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-10 Thread Bastien Nocera
- Original Message - Am 10.12.2014 um 06:08 schrieb Simo Sorce: Most users have no idea what NAT, TCP or ports are sadly yes nor should they! *they should* damned people should stop to evangelize that users do not need to know anything and then design operating systems

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-10 Thread Bastien Nocera
- Original Message - Bastien Nocera wrote: For example, RTSP streaming, Rhythmbox remote control for iOS, music sharing via DAAP, DLNA sharing via rygel, but also DLNA client usage (through Videos), and VNC are impacted. This is a non-exhaustive list for the default applications

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-10 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 10.12.2014 um 12:47 schrieb Bastien Nocera: Even if we chose static ports for those (or rather port ranges, because if you have multiple users running, you'd need multiple ports), leaving only those ports opened wouldn't stop other random applications from choosing those ports to do

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-10 Thread Robert Marcano
On 12/10/2014 12:38 AM, Simo Sorce wrote: On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 05:46:32 +0100 Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Pete Travis wrote: Lets say I do have an understanding of network basics, just for the sake of argument. I share my application with you. The application is intended to

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-10 Thread Robert Marcano
On 12/10/2014 12:01 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Stephen John Smoogen wrote: In the end, this is a tempest in a teapot. The release is out and it is done. The release is out, but there are an expected 13 months of security updates, of which this ought to be the first. and there is a precedent of

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-10 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Wed, 2014-12-10 at 05:57 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: VNC?! You think it's a good idea to allow REMOTE CONTROLLING YOUR DESKTOP by default??? The firewall must not block VNC. VNC is a GNOME feature and it must work if enabled. It's disabled by default, because it'd be stupid to have it

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-10 Thread Kevin Kofler
Bastien Nocera wrote: Even if we chose static ports for those (or rather port ranges, because if you have multiple users running, you'd need multiple ports), leaving only those ports opened wouldn't stop other random applications from choosing those ports to do something nefarious. You're just

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-10 Thread Jiri Popelka
On 12/09/2014 07:54 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Stephen Gallagher wrote: services: dhcpv6-client dns freeipa-ldap freeipa-ldaps samba-client ssh With the default Workstation policy, does that enumerate all 129022 open unprivileged ports? # firewall-cmd --list-all FedoraWorkstation (active)

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-10 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 9 December 2014 at 21:31, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Stephen John Smoogen wrote: In the end, this is a tempest in a teapot. The release is out and it is done. The release is out, but there are an expected 13 months of security updates, of which this ought to be the

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-10 Thread Ian Malone
On 10 December 2014 at 11:47, Bastien Nocera bnoc...@redhat.com wrote: - Original Message - On 10 December 2014 at 00:43, Bastien Nocera bnoc...@redhat.com wrote: - Original Message - On 9 December 2014 at 13:47, Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
On Tue, 2014-12-09 at 17:29 +1030, William B wrote: I just happened to look at the firewalld default settings, and I was not amused when I noticed this: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/firewalld.git/tree/FedoraWorkstation.xml port protocol=udp port=1025-65535/ port

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 09.12.2014 um 10:08 schrieb Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos: On Tue, 2014-12-09 at 17:29 +1030, William B wrote: I just happened to look at the firewalld default settings, and I was not amused when I noticed this: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/firewalld.git/tree/FedoraWorkstation.xml port

Re: Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Bastien Nocera
Subject: Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall Message-ID: 54862c26.9020...@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed On 08/12/14 16:33, Matthew Miller wrote: On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 02:31:58PM +, Ian Malone wrote: There are three products

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Bastien Nocera
- Original Message - As one who maintains a remix for journalists, I expect the default for a workstation should be that you mus* explicitly know what you are doing to open a port, and enable or start a service - the default release should have a minimum attack surface by design.

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Bastien Nocera
- Original Message - sudo firewall-cmd --set-default-zone=FedoraServer That will limit it to SSH, DHCPv6 and cockpit Or use default zone Public, which swaps cockpit out and adds mDNS Or if you're Reindl Harald-level paranoid (no offense intended, Harald but

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Mon, 2014-12-08 at 16:30 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Bastien Nocera wrote: If this had been discussed on this list, as it is supposed to, the objections would have come in much earlier. If you're interested in Workstation-specific features, you need to subscribe to

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Bastien Nocera
- Original Message - Stephen Gallagher wrote: Also, while I think it's been unclear in this thread, the main reason that the firewall GUI was taken out was because the Workstation guys want to design a more user-understandable one and include that directly (if I am remembering

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Mon, 2014-12-08 at 10:49 -0500, Bastien Nocera wrote: If Reindl, Kevin or Tomas want to disagree with that, I'll give you a little exercise: Having just installed and updated my Fedora 20, I want to share a video in my home directory using UPnP/DLNA to my TV, using rygel for example.

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, I also thought that the whole points of having Zones etc, was so that we could pick a different zone per network connection, /me too. so if I'm in the office or at home I can say use this zone, if I'm at a coffee shop I can pick a different one etc. Or was this consider too

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 12:54:59PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: Why we can't have something like this? And if you don't want a popup asking, have something in the NetworkManager applet menu, where people can easily find the switch without having to search for it? A [x] allow sharing checkbox?

Re: Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Rave it
to wide-open firewall Message-ID: 1627776125.20134262.1418122486256.javamail.zim...@redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Is it possisible that the real reason for this decision from gnome was to fix a long outstanding bug in gnome-user-share? It wasn't. It caused

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Solomon Peachy
On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 12:35:23PM +0100, Michael Catanzaro wrote: We are concerned with practical security -- keeping the user safe by anticipating the user's typical response to situations. But if you think the firewall configuration GUI in F20 existed for any purpose other than to

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Ian Malone
On 9 December 2014 at 11:35, Michael Catanzaro mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote: On Mon, 2014-12-08 at 10:49 -0500, Bastien Nocera wrote: If Reindl, Kevin or Tomas want to disagree with that, I'll give you a little exercise: Having just installed and updated my Fedora 20, I want to share a video

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Tue, 2014-12-09 at 03:34 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Because Fedora is aggressively marketing a Product with a major security vulnerability as its primary Product. To the extent that this is any argument at all: neither Ubuntu nor Debian enables a firewall. signature.asc Description: This

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread William B
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 09 Dec 2014 10:08:06 +0100 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos n...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, 2014-12-09 at 17:29 +1030, William B wrote: I just happened to look at the firewalld default settings, and I was not amused when I noticed this:

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Stephen Gallagher
On Tue, 2014-12-09 at 07:27 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Stephen Gallagher wrote: Also, while I think it's been unclear in this thread, the main reason that the firewall GUI was taken out was because the Workstation guys want to design a more user-understandable one and include that

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Ian Malone
On 8 December 2014 at 15:33, Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 02:31:58PM +, Ian Malone wrote: There are three products: workstation, server, cloud. Workstation is the one for desktop use. That leaves server to aim for the traditional fedora user base,

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Bastien Nocera
- Original Message - On 9 December 2014 at 11:35, Michael Catanzaro mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote: On Mon, 2014-12-08 at 10:49 -0500, Bastien Nocera wrote: If Reindl, Kevin or Tomas want to disagree with that, I'll give you a little exercise: Having just installed and updated my

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Bastien Nocera
- Original Message - On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 12:54:59PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: Why we can't have something like this? And if you don't want a popup asking, have something in the NetworkManager applet menu, where people can easily find the switch without having to search for

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 09.12.2014 um 14:16 schrieb Bastien Nocera: On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 12:54:59PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: Why we can't have something like this? And if you don't want a popup asking, have something in the NetworkManager applet menu, where people can easily find the switch without having

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Bastien Nocera
- Original Message - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 09 Dec 2014 10:08:06 +0100 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos n...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, 2014-12-09 at 17:29 +1030, William B wrote: I just happened to look at the firewalld default settings, and I

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 09.12.2014 um 14:23 schrieb Bastien Nocera: [1]: I haven't seen anything but arm-flailing on that issue. If somebody wants to go into details about what a server running inside the user's session would be able to do that a client wouldn't be able to, feel free. you realize the difference

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Bastien Nocera
- Original Message - Am 09.12.2014 um 14:16 schrieb Bastien Nocera: On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 12:54:59PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: Why we can't have something like this? And if you don't want a popup asking, have something in the NetworkManager applet menu, where people can

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Bastien Nocera
- Original Message - Am 09.12.2014 um 14:23 schrieb Bastien Nocera: [1]: I haven't seen anything but arm-flailing on that issue. If somebody wants to go into details about what a server running inside the user's session would be able to do that a client wouldn't be able to,

Re: Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Bastien Nocera
@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: Product defaults to wide-open firewall Message-ID: 1627776125.20134262.1418122486256.javamail.zim...@redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Is it possisible that the real reason for this decision from gnome was to fix a long outstanding bug

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Mon, 2014-12-08 at 16:41 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: So you rather implement the type of OS that just always assumes Yes without even asking? Because that's what the current firewall rules do (between quotes because it can hardly be called a firewall in that state). How's that more

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Mon, 2014-12-08 at 18:56 -0800, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: is Workstation the only Fedora-branded release with those ports open? Yes signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 09.12.2014 um 14:32 schrieb Bastien Nocera: Am 09.12.2014 um 14:23 schrieb Bastien Nocera: [1]: I haven't seen anything but arm-flailing on that issue. If somebody wants to go into details about what a server running inside the user's session would be able to do that a client wouldn't be

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 01:11:33PM +, Ian Malone wrote: have a proposal for a new spin focused on privacy and security — the Netizen Spin. (If you're interested, I think that could use additional contributors.) I was under the impression spins were to be phased out. I could be wrong,

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 02:41:08PM +0100, Michael Catanzaro wrote: is Workstation the only Fedora-branded release with those ports open? Yes Well, no. Fedora Cloud doesn't include any iptables rules by default. (The assumption is that it'll be run in a cloud environment with security groups at

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Richard Hughes
On 9 December 2014 at 13:39, Michael Catanzaro mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote: So your challenge is to find an alternative default that supports it. I'd go even further. I don't think the people writing the vast number of lengthy posts on this thread actually want to *use* workstation, with the

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Mon, 2014-12-08 at 17:08 -0430, Robert Marcano wrote: Adding to that, this decision bring me memories to the awful old case when someone decided that the install anything from the repositories was permitted to any user on the system by default, that was reverted with an update because

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Robert Marcano
On 12/09/2014 08:53 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 09.12.2014 um 14:16 schrieb Bastien Nocera: On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 12:54:59PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: Why we can't have something like this? And if you don't want a popup asking, have something in the NetworkManager applet menu, where

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Robert Marcano
On 12/09/2014 09:20 AM, Michael Catanzaro wrote: On Mon, 2014-12-08 at 17:08 -0430, Robert Marcano wrote: Adding to that, this decision bring me memories to the awful old case when someone decided that the install anything from the repositories was permitted to any user on the system by

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Bastien Nocera
- Original Message - Am 09.12.2014 um 14:32 schrieb Bastien Nocera: Am 09.12.2014 um 14:23 schrieb Bastien Nocera: [1]: I haven't seen anything but arm-flailing on that issue. If somebody wants to go into details about what a server running inside the user's session would

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Stephen Gallagher
On Tue, 2014-12-09 at 14:41 +0100, Michael Catanzaro wrote: On Mon, 2014-12-08 at 18:56 -0800, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: is Workstation the only Fedora-branded release with those ports open? Yes No, actually. The Fedora Cloud ships with no firewall at all (but that's because it's

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Robert Marcano
On 12/09/2014 09:27 AM, Robert Marcano wrote: What I see frequently are applications that are installed from outside the Fedora repositories, that can be forced to behave like Fedora packaging rules, with secure defaults before sharing, being installed and the user that don't know much about

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Brian Wheeler
On 12/09/2014 08:50 AM, Richard Hughes wrote: On 9 December 2014 at 13:39, Michael Catanzaro mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote: So your challenge is to find an alternative default that supports it. I'd go even further. I don't think the people writing

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Stephen Gallagher
On Tue, 2014-12-09 at 08:23 -0500, Bastien Nocera wrote: - Original Message - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 09 Dec 2014 10:08:06 +0100 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos n...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, 2014-12-09 at 17:29 +1030, William B wrote: I

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Christian Schaller
- Original Message - From: Robert Marcano rob...@marcanoonline.com To: Development discussions related to Fedora devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Tuesday, December 9, 2014 8:57:51 AM Subject: Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall On 12/09/2014 08:53 AM

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Christian Schaller
- Original Message - From: Brian Wheeler bdwhe...@indiana.edu To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Tuesday, December 9, 2014 9:18:47 AM Subject: Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall On 12/09/2014 08:50 AM, Richard Hughes wrote: On 9 December 2014

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 09.12.2014 um 15:57 schrieb Christian Schaller: Well I think it is hard for anyone to guess what would be reasonable defaults for you specifically, any default is by its nature just targeting an generic person, which might or might not be a lot like you. But if you are aware and understand

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Thomas Woerner
On 12/09/2014 03:57 PM, Christian Schaller wrote: - Original Message - From: Brian Wheeler bdwhe...@indiana.edu To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Tuesday, December 9, 2014 9:18:47 AM Subject: Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall On 12/09/2014 08:50 AM

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Bastien Nocera
- Original Message - On Mon, 8 Dec 2014 05:45:56 -0500 (EST) Bastien Nocera bnoc...@redhat.com wrote: No, because that'd be awful UI. Is it really so awful to ask a user: Do you want to expose Eclipse to the network ? (of course worded in a better way than my poor English

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Bastien Nocera
- Original Message - On 12/09/2014 08:50 AM, Richard Hughes wrote: On 9 December 2014 at 13:39, Michael Catanzaro mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote: So your challenge is to find an alternative default that supports it. I'd go even further. I don't think the people writing the

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Bastien Nocera
- Original Message - Hi, I also thought that the whole points of having Zones etc, was so that we could pick a different zone per network connection, /me too. so if I'm in the office or at home I can say use this zone, if I'm at a coffee shop I can pick a different

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
On Di, 2014-12-09 at 08:16 -0500, Bastien Nocera wrote: - Original Message - On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 12:54:59PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: Why we can't have something like this? And if you don't want a popup asking, have something in the NetworkManager applet menu, where

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Simo Sorce
On Tue, 9 Dec 2014 10:09:07 -0500 (EST) Bastien Nocera bnoc...@redhat.com wrote: - Original Message - On Mon, 8 Dec 2014 05:45:56 -0500 (EST) Bastien Nocera bnoc...@redhat.com wrote: No, because that'd be awful UI. Is it really so awful to ask a user: Do you want to

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Simo Sorce
On Mon, 8 Dec 2014 05:45:56 -0500 (EST) Bastien Nocera bnoc...@redhat.com wrote: No, because that'd be awful UI. Is it really so awful to ask a user: Do you want to expose Eclipse to the network ? (of course worded in a better way than my poor English skills can do). I think users can

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Christian Schaller
- Original Message - From: Gerd Hoffmann kra...@redhat.com To: Development discussions related to Fedora devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Tuesday, December 9, 2014 10:22:01 AM Subject: Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall On Di, 2014-12-09 at 08:16 -0500

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Bastien Nocera
- Original Message - On Tue, 9 Dec 2014 10:09:07 -0500 (EST) Bastien Nocera bnoc...@redhat.com wrote: - Original Message - On Mon, 8 Dec 2014 05:45:56 -0500 (EST) Bastien Nocera bnoc...@redhat.com wrote: No, because that'd be awful UI. Is it

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Robert Marcano
On 12/09/2014 11:01 AM, Christian Schaller wrote: - Original Message - From: Gerd Hoffmann kra...@redhat.com To: Development discussions related to Fedora devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Tuesday, December 9, 2014 10:22:01 AM Subject: Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Christian Schaller
- Original Message - From: Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Tuesday, December 9, 2014 10:04:46 AM Subject: Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall Am 09.12.2014 um 15:57 schrieb Christian Schaller: Well I think

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 09.12.2014 um 16:40 schrieb Christian Schaller: - Original Message - From: Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Tuesday, December 9, 2014 10:04:46 AM Subject: Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall Am 09.12.2014 um 15:57

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Brian Wheeler
On 12/09/2014 10:11 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote: The defaults for the various products are "packaged" by zones. You just need to change the firewalld zone to get whatever is the default on the server side. Ok, so it's another item on my list of

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, Side Note: For the latter we need to cleanup the zones though. There are *way* to many to choose from, and the names suck big time. WTF is a Fedora$product zone? And wasn't that discussed before on this list? Why do we *still* have this

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On 12/08/2014 06:41 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: the security community is usually very clear: * forbid as much as you can by default * allow only what *really* is needed to get the work done ...and this is the tricky part---you want tightly defined functionality, and other people want to install

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Richard Hughes
On 9 December 2014 at 14:18, Brian Wheeler bdwhe...@indiana.edu wrote: I also expect things to work with the minimum amount of fuss. So do I! I'm a developer, which spin do I use so that the firewall doesn't get in my way? We can't develop a *product* based around what you specifically want, not

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 11:59 PM, William B will...@firstyear.id.au wrote: The true crux of this issue is the over complexity that firewalld has brought to fedora, and the fact that a quality UI for managing it does not exist yet. OSX solves this issue by having an on or off button, and a

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Orion Poplawski
On 12/09/2014 10:27 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 11:59 PM, William B will...@firstyear.id.au wrote: The true crux of this issue is the over complexity that firewalld has brought to fedora, and the fact that a quality UI for managing it does not exist yet. OSX solves

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 2:08 AM, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos n...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, 2014-12-09 at 17:29 +1030, William B wrote: I just happened to look at the firewalld default settings, and I was not amused when I noticed this:

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 9 December 2014 at 10:27, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 11:59 PM, William B will...@firstyear.id.au wrote: The true crux of this issue is the over complexity that firewalld has brought to fedora, and the fact that a quality UI for managing it does not

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Alec Leamas
On 09/12/14 18:39, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On 9 December 2014 at 10:27, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com [cut] OS X's firewall is disabled by default. Where's the outcry? It was a long time ago and it basically caused it to have extra configurations before it could be 'ok'd'

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Brian Wheeler
On 12/09/2014 11:46 AM, Richard Hughes wrote: I don't think it makes much sense for people to stamp their feet saying "BUT I LIKED THE OLD WAY OF DOING THINGS" when the people leading the workstation product have identified that the old way of doing things

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 9 December 2014 at 10:46, Alec Leamas leamas.a...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/12/14 18:39, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On 9 December 2014 at 10:27, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com [cut] OS X's firewall is disabled by default. Where's the outcry? It was a long time ago and it

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Alec Leamas
On 09/12/14 18:53, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: In the end, this is a tempest in a teapot. The release is out and it is done. I don't like it, but my yelling and screaming and spitting in an autistic rage did not fix it so its time to move on so that is what I am going to do. Amen --alec --

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Dan Williams
On Tue, 2014-12-09 at 10:19 -0500, Bastien Nocera wrote: - Original Message - Hi, I also thought that the whole points of having Zones etc, was so that we could pick a different zone per network connection, /me too. so if I'm in the office or at home I can say

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Pete Travis
On Dec 9, 2014 10:54 AM, Stephen John Smoogen smo...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 December 2014 at 10:46, Alec Leamas leamas.a...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/12/14 18:39, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On 9 December 2014 at 10:27, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com [cut] OS X's firewall is

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Kevin Kofler
Richard Hughes wrote: So do I! I'm a developer, which spin do I use so that the firewall doesn't get in my way? We can't develop a *product* based around what you specifically want, not me, nor anyone else on this list. If you're a developer, surely you know what a port is and can make a few

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Kevin Kofler
Christian Schaller wrote: I think the part of the sentence you probably missed was if you are aware and understand the finer details here, because for anyone who doesn't understand the finer details here you are suggesting we default the system to 'broken'. s/broken/secure/ Secure by default

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 09.12.2014 um 19:13 schrieb Kevin Kofler: Michael Catanzaro wrote: The default for an invalid TLS certificate should be to fail, no exceptions, since we know that a user clicking Yes is almost always picking the wrong option. Nonsense (and this is one of the reasons I hate Firefox). The

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Kevin Kofler
Brian Wheeler wrote: Ok, so what product/spin am I supposed to use? I'm a RHEL sysadmin but I use Fedora on my desktop laptop. I expect the firewall to be on so when I evaluate a new piece of software or do a bit of network development I don't inadvertently increase my

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Kevin Kofler
Przemek Klosowski wrote: I think that we should start with the low hanging fruit and simplify the firewall zones to two : a public, restricted one and a home/private with more ports open; selected by user for each new interface. Those 2 zones are basically what is defined now with that

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Kevin Kofler
Michael Catanzaro wrote: The default for an invalid TLS certificate should be to fail, no exceptions, since we know that a user clicking Yes is almost always picking the wrong option. Nonsense (and this is one of the reasons I hate Firefox). The right answer for an invalid TLS certificate is

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 11:16:54AM -0700, Pete Travis wrote: But seriously, there's an implication in this thread that there will be work happening to give stuff a path to ask for an open port. Where can we follow along with that effort? Starting with, say, how I might change `nikola

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 09.12.2014 um 19:33 schrieb Chuck Anderson: On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 11:16:54AM -0700, Pete Travis wrote: But seriously, there's an implication in this thread that there will be work happening to give stuff a path to ask for an open port. Where can we follow along with that effort?

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Bastien Nocera
- Original Message - Richard Hughes wrote: So do I! I'm a developer, which spin do I use so that the firewall doesn't get in my way? We can't develop a *product* based around what you specifically want, not me, nor anyone else on this list. If you're a developer, surely you

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 09.12.2014 um 19:45 schrieb Bastien Nocera: Richard Hughes wrote: So do I! I'm a developer, which spin do I use so that the firewall doesn't get in my way? We can't develop a *product* based around what you specifically want, not me, nor anyone else on this list. If you're a developer,

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Kevin Kofler
So, since I was accused of ignoring the main part of this mail, let's answer it: Stephen Gallagher wrote: I think you're forgetting the core tenet of security: good security is *always* layered. But Workstation is basically removing the outer layer. Also yes: I keep my irreplaceable and

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Pete Travis
On Dec 9, 2014 11:33 AM, Chuck Anderson c...@wpi.edu wrote: On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 11:16:54AM -0700, Pete Travis wrote: But seriously, there's an implication in this thread that there will be work happening to give stuff a path to ask for an open port. Where can we follow along with that

Re: Workstation Product defaults to wide-open firewall

2014-12-09 Thread Richard Hughes
On 9 December 2014 at 18:19, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: If you're a developer, surely you know what a port is and can make a few clicks in firewall-config or system-config-firewall to open it! A developer who can't even figure that out is a HORRIBLE developer! Yup, that's me. A

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