Gufw

changing both outgoing and incoming to "deny" should block everything? -- right??

Asked by tjk

I tried setting both incoming and outgoing to "deny". I thought the result would be that I would not be able to browse the internet or access anything outside my computer... I was wrong... it didn't seem to change anything. Why doesn't this work the way I thought it would?

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costales (costales) said : 		#1

Yes, it's right. With outgoing = deny you should can't browse or connect to Internet.

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tjk (tim-klassen) said : 		#2

Well, this is what I did...
  Started Gufw
    made sure that status is "on" and incoming is "deny" and outgoing is "deny"
(I am assuming that this takes effect the moment it is changed...)
   Then I started my browser, logged into my gmail account, clicked on the link to this page, and wrote this message.

YET, you said that with outgoing=deny I should not be able to browse or connect to the internet. The only thing that I can think of is, that the changes in Gufw do not take effect immediately... otherwise why am I able to connect to the internet now?

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tjk (tim-klassen) said : 		#3

Further to this situation... I did close gufw and then reopen it. The settings were saved and both incoming and outgoing were still set to "deny". I even logged off, logged back into Lubuntu and now I'm writing this message (after verifying again that ufa setting were both set to deny outgoing and incoming).

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tjk (tim-klassen) said : 		#4

I now see that when I run gufw in terminal I get some errors. Here's what it shows...

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/pyshared/gufw/view/guiGufw.py", line 425, in _do_refresh_report
    background_job = RefreshReport(self.fw.get_status(), self.report_model, lines, self.previous_report, self.first_run_report, self.fw.get_notify_popup())
  File "/usr/share/pyshared/gufw/view/guiGufw.py", line 1149, in __init__
    notify_object = bus.get_object('org.freedesktop.Notifications', '/org/freedesktop/Notifications')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 241, in get_object
    follow_name_owner_changes=follow_name_owner_changes)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 248, in __init__
    self._named_service = conn.activate_name_owner(bus_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 180, in activate_name_owner
    self.start_service_by_name(bus_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 278, in start_service_by_name
    'su', (bus_name, flags)))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 651, in call_blocking
    message, timeout)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xfce4/notifyd/xfce4-notifyd exited with status 1

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