Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-09-04 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 5:46 AM Nicolas Mailhot via devel wrote: > > Le 2019-09-03 18:52, Kyle Marek a écrit : > > > Additionally, binding to a specific address does not handle dynamic > > networks very well. > > Simplify that to binding to a specific address does not handle network > very well,

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-09-04 Thread Nicolas Mailhot via devel
Le 2019-09-03 18:52, Kyle Marek a écrit : Additionally, binding to a specific address does not handle dynamic networks very well. Simplify that to binding to a specific address does not handle network very well, since everything is dynamic nowadays, on desktops, phones or servers (servers

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-09-03 Thread Kyle Marek
On 8/31/19 6:45 PM, John Harris wrote: > On Friday, August 30, 2019 4:33:11 AM MST Björn Persson wrote: >> 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

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. Exactly.

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-09-02 Thread John Harris
On Sunday, September 1, 2019 4:13:10 AM MST mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote: > On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 6:37 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia > wrote: > > > If 30 years in DevOps and system security in both large and small > > networks count for anything, this makes *complete* sense. The > > distinction between

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-09-02 Thread Sheogorath via devel
On 8/28/19 1:01 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2019-08-27 at 15:06 +0200, Jiri Eischmann wrote: >> mcatanz...@gnome.org píše v Út 27. 08. 2019 v 15:07 +0300: >>> 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

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-09-02 Thread Sheogorath via devel
On 8/27/19 3:25 AM, John Harris wrote: > On Monday, August 26, 2019 7:25:27 AM MST Iñaki Ucar wrote: >> On Mon, 26 Aug 2019 at 15:25, Robert Marcano >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 8/26/19 9:07 AM, mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote: >>> Well the thing is, blocknig ports tends to break

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-09-01 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sun, Sep 1, 2019 at 7:16 AM wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 6:37 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia > wrote: > > If 30 years in DevOps and system security in both large and small > > networks count for anything, this makes *complete* sense. The > > distinction between a "Workstation" deployment and a

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-09-01 Thread mcatanzaro
On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 6:37 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: If 30 years in DevOps and system security in both large and small networks count for anything, this makes *complete* sense. The distinction between a "Workstation" deployment and a "Server" or "Everything" deployment should not include

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
On Friday, August 30, 2019 12:35:34 PM MST mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote: > On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 7:46 PM, Christopher > wrote: > > > Yeah, I also don't want a complicated installer. I just don't see this > > disagreement going anywhere without some sort of compromise, and I > > can't think of

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-31 Thread John Harris
On Friday, August 30, 2019 4:33:11 AM MST Björn Persson wrote: > 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

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-30 Thread mcatanzaro
On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 7:46 PM, Christopher wrote: Yeah, I also don't want a complicated installer. I just don't see this disagreement going anywhere without some sort of compromise, and I can't think of any others that will satisfy people. I think there's a good chance this could be

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-30 Thread mcatanzaro
On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 5:33 AM, Jiri Eischmann wrote: And the same document says: "While our focus is on creating a top-class developer workstation, our developer focus will not compromise the aforementioned goal to be a polished and user friendly system that appeals to a wide general

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, Solus, pop!_OS, as well. By >

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-29 Thread John Harris
On Thursday, August 29, 2019 8:34:09 AM MST Christophe de Dinechin wrote: > mcatanz...@gnome.org writes: > > > > 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:

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
On Thursday, August 29, 2019 11:17:11 AM MST Japheth Cleaver wrote: > 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

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
On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 2:18 PM Japheth Cleaver wrote: > > 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

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 > permissive, they all accept

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 openSUSE do

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
mcatanz...@gnome.org writes: > 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 and you have whitelisted it (in which

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-29 Thread Dan Book
On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 11:11 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: > > > On Wednesday, August 28, 2019 5:46:58 PM MST Christopher wrote: > > > > A similar idea that would keep it separate from

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-29 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2019-08-28 at 23:13 -0400, Christopher wrote: > On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 8:56 PM John Harris wrote: > > 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"

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-29 Thread Iñaki Ucar
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 just to let you all know that I'm at least trying to push for better

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:

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-29 Thread John Harris
On Wednesday, August 28, 2019 10:31:54 PM MST Christopher wrote: > We're getting off-topic, but really quickly: Yes, you can select > advanced packaging (at least you could in the past... probably still > can). You can also use kickstart to automate installs with custom > package installations and

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-28 Thread Christopher
On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 1:08 AM John Harris wrote: > > On Wednesday, August 28, 2019 10:00:35 PM MST Christopher wrote: > > No, the default firewalld zone affects all Fedora Workstation users, > > because firewalld runs outside of GNOME. Just because a user uses the > > Workstation Edition

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-28 Thread John Harris
On Wednesday, August 28, 2019 10:00:35 PM MST Christopher wrote: > No, the default firewalld zone affects all Fedora Workstation users, > because firewalld runs outside of GNOME. Just because a user uses the > Workstation Edition doesn't mean they're running GNOME... you can > still run Cinnamon,

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 > > if this would be

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 = GNOME Spin.

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-28 Thread Christopher
On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 8:56 PM John Harris wrote: > > 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

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 > > > > (Neither for that matter

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: >

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
On Wednesday, August 28, 2019 3:50:49 PM MST Chris Murphy wrote: > A somewhat related feature that was rejected by FESCo > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SecurityPolicyInTheInstaller > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-March/19.html Security policies aren't related

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-28 Thread Christopher
On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 6:52 PM Chris Murphy wrote: > > 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

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
On Wednesday, August 28, 2019 10:00:03 AM MST Chris Murphy wrote: > This is hyperbole, and turning up the volume isn't going to make > anyone go "oh, ok, now I see your point, it's hostile and we don't > want to do that, let's change it" as if literally everyone reading > this is some kind of

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 knowledge, makes the

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 that listens on a

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-28 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2019-08-28 at 22:32 +0300, mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote: > On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 9:56 PM, Christopher > wrote: > > 2) the Workstation WG has not only taken no action in response to the > > FESCo statement of trust at the conclusion of our last lengthy > > discussion on this matter, it

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-28 Thread Christopher
On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 3:33 PM wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 9:56 PM, Christopher > wrote: > > 2) the Workstation WG has not only taken no action in response to the FESCo > statement of trust at the conclusion of our last lengthy discussion on this > matter, it has been explicitly

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-28 Thread mcatanzaro
On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 9:56 PM, Christopher wrote: 2) the Workstation WG has not only taken no action in response to the FESCo statement of trust at the conclusion of our last lengthy discussion on this matter, it has been explicitly stated in this thread that they have never had any intention

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 considered > > hostile to the user. > >

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 isn't going to make

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-28 Thread Tony Nelson
On 19-08-28 01:03:51, Chris Murphy wrote: On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 10:26 PM Christopher wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 9:27 PM Chris Murphy wrote: > > > The Workstation technical specification document says in part: > > Where is the full technical specification document, so one can

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 Wednesday, August 28, 2019 3:33:48 AM MST Jiri Eischmann wrote: > Adam Williamson píše v Út 27. 08. 2019 v 16:01 -0700: > > > On Tue, 2019-08-27 at 15:06 +0200, Jiri Eischmann wrote: > > > > > mcatanz...@gnome.org píše v Út 27. 08. 2019 v 15:07 +0300: > > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-28 Thread Jiri Eischmann
Adam Williamson píše v Út 27. 08. 2019 v 16:01 -0700: > On Tue, 2019-08-27 at 15:06 +0200, Jiri Eischmann wrote: > > mcatanz...@gnome.org píše v Út 27. 08. 2019 v 15:07 +0300: > > > On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 4:22 AM, John Harris < > > > joh...@splentity.com> > > > wrote: > > > > No, that is not how

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 actually

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 ago >

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 sshd is

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 10:26 PM Christopher wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 9:27 PM Chris Murphy wrote: > > > 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?

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread Christopher
On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 9:27 PM Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 6:23 PM John Harris wrote: > > > > sshd was enabled by default back in F23, unless my install was completely > > broken. I wouldn't remember that well, unfortunately, as I've been running > > KDE > > since the end

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread Tony Nelson
On 19-08-27 19:58:15, Chris Murphy wrote: ... I definitely do not want to pester developers, or make their day to day life difficult. If there's no satisfactory GUI right now to manage it, it's difficult to even experiment with different policies. The original firewalld proposal considered the

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 6:23 PM John Harris wrote: > > sshd was enabled by default back in F23, unless my install was completely > broken. I wouldn't remember that well, unfortunately, as I've been running KDE > since the end of the F24 release cycle. I don't think so. * Fri Mar 13 2015 Dennis

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
On Tuesday, August 27, 2019 4:58:15 PM MST Chris Murphy wrote: > On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 5:02 PM Adam Williamson > wrote: > > > > > > > However, Fedora Workstation is an edition. Which means it has a > > *policy-defined* target audience. That target audience is defined here: > >

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
On Tuesday, August 27, 2019 4:49:03 PM MST Japheth Cleaver wrote: > On 8/27/2019 4:01 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > On Tue, 2019-08-27 at 15:06 +0200, Jiri Eischmann wrote: > > > >> mcatanz...@gnome.org píše v Út 27. 08. 2019 v 15:07 +0300: > >> > >>> On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 4:22 AM, John

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread John Harris
On Tuesday, August 27, 2019 5:05:57 PM MST Chris Murphy wrote: > On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 5:24 PM John Harris wrote: > > > > > > > On Tuesday, August 27, 2019 8:23:01 AM MST Chris Murphy wrote: > > > > > > Windows is enable by default with two "zones" or "policies" (I can't > > > even tell

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 some sort of vulnerable

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 5:24 PM John Harris wrote: > > On Tuesday, August 27, 2019 8:23:01 AM MST Chris Murphy wrote: > > Windows is enable by default with two "zones" or "policies" (I can't > > even tell from their own UI what to call this), one for private > > networks, and another for

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 5:02 PM Adam Williamson wrote: > > However, Fedora Workstation is an edition. Which means it has a > *policy-defined* target audience. That target audience is defined here: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Workstation/Workstation_PRD#Target_Audience > > Case 1:

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread Japheth Cleaver
On 8/27/2019 4:01 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Tue, 2019-08-27 at 15:06 +0200, Jiri Eischmann wrote: mcatanz...@gnome.org píše v Út 27. 08. 2019 v 15:07 +0300: 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

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: >> >>> >>> >>> The other major non-Linux operating systems do.

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 coworker, who is a

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. > > > The firewall on macOS is

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread John Harris
On Tuesday, August 27, 2019 8:04:46 AM MST Louis Lagendijk wrote: > On Tue, 2019-08-27 at 10:14 -0400, Robert Marcano wrote: > > > On 8/27/19 10:03 AM, John Harris wrote: > > > > > > > > > Any new Wifi connection could be identified by their SSID, so it > > could > > still be secure by

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread John Harris
On Tuesday, August 27, 2019 9:59:23 AM MST David Kaufmann wrote: > I'm not trying to recommend it, this is already done, e.g. for mdns, > samba-client, or ssh. (To be fair that happens on os install, not > necessarily on package install) > I'm trying to list the problems with those options. There

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread John Harris
On Tuesday, August 27, 2019 10:09:12 AM MST Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > 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

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
On Tue, 2019-08-27 at 15:06 +0200, Jiri Eischmann wrote: > mcatanz...@gnome.org píše v Út 27. 08. 2019 v 15:07 +0300: > > 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

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 4:54 PM John Harris wrote: > > On Tuesday, August 27, 2019 9:14:10 AM MST Björn Persson wrote: > > 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 > > >>

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread John Harris
On Tuesday, August 27, 2019 9:14:10 AM MST Björn Persson wrote: > 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

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 infected. You're closing

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 application can run

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread David Kaufmann
On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 06:58:06AM -0700, John Harris wrote: > On Tuesday, August 27, 2019 4:37:24 AM MST David Kaufmann wrote: >> Both option have their disadvantages - in the case of "maintainer opens >> ports" the ports are open as soon as the package gets installed, and >> software not

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 *firewall* would stop it

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 Workstation

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...? > > 1. Ubuntu Server ships

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread Louis Lagendijk
On Tue, 2019-08-27 at 10:14 -0400, Robert Marcano wrote: > On 8/27/19 10:03 AM, John Harris wrote: > > > Any new Wifi connection could be identified by their SSID, so it > could > still be secure by default and ask for that specific connection to > be > opened because you trust them. As I

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread Iñaki Ucar
On Tue, 27 Aug 2019 at 15:17, Iñaki Ucar wrote: > > Windows shows a pop-up. To be fair, I've just checked and Windows 10 doesn't show a pop-up; better than that: when you (enter the password and) hit "connect", it asks there whether it's a private network and you want to share resources, yes or

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread John Harris
On Tuesday, August 27, 2019 7:14:20 AM MST Robert Marcano wrote: > 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

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 that's a good

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 as asking the

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread John Harris
On Tuesday, August 27, 2019 7:06:31 AM MST Ryan Walklin wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 4:22 AM, John Harris > > > > > > > That port numbers are now "technical details" is fairly concerning, and I > > > > can't imagine why you think users shouldn't be able to configure their > >

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread Ryan Walklin
> > On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 4:22 AM, John Harris > > That port numbers are now "technical details" is fairly concerning, and I > can't imagine why you think users shouldn't be able to configure their > firewall. You realize we have a GTK firewall configuration program? > > Right now, the

Re: Fedora Workstation and disabled by default firewall

2019-08-27 Thread John Harris
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 as asking the user once whether a

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