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Hi again did try and work this out for myself! But taking time  :-[
Trying get firewall to startup I found the startup box and have added firewall program and have ticked box ticked but it doesn't load.

On old computer I think I did the same steps and it worked sometimes.
I would like firewall to load and I not have to put in password.

I'm I going to have to type code in Terminal to make this work?
See screenshot of startup popup box.

Thanks

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Hi,

May I ask which command you run under your firewall entry in the "startup box"?

To activate the firewall on the system I would suggest to open a terminal and type in:


This will activate your firewall on your system. You only have to run it once. The system will start up the firewall from now on as soon as you boot the computer.
The firewall by default blocks all incoming connections and allows all outgoing connections.
If you want to configure rules you can do this in a terminal via the ufw command. If you prefer a GUI you can install/use gufw.

Hope that helps

Thanks will look at this tomorrow. I installed the firewall by terminal on fresh install.

I did think once installed it would load by it's self, but Im thinking thats the windows way.

As ufw is installed by default I assume you are talking about your installation of gufw.

At the moment ufw is not enabled by default (worth a discussion with LL dev whether this should be changed) and installing gufw does not enable it automatically.

To enable it run the command provided OR open Gufw and change the status to active.

Let us know if you need further assistance

Hay LL User

Quote:As ufw is installed by default I assume you are talking about your installation of gufw.

Didn't know UFW was installed. And yes I'm using GUFW.

Sorry I should put more details in like what I was using then you working it out  :-[
I just copied & pasted sudo gufw enable into Terminal.

Going to reboot see if gufw loads by it's self.

Thanks

Still got a pop to enter password.

Can see this is going to be a big can of worms :o Is ufw a better firewall.

Kind of moaning
I can't remember a time when I know so little wound if all this is in my head! Maybe Windows is for dummy I know what I'm doing with all the os.

Seems so much to learn plus to setup.

Hi

You're almost there, don't give up

You have used just one letter too many: gufw instead of ufw, therefore mixing up the command line tool ufw with the GUI tool gufw. Gufw is just the graphical frontend for ufw, just to make your life more clickable

So what you did by typing in "sudo gufw enable" is NOT enabling the firewall straight away. The "enable" part in that command is not processed. You just started gufw with root permissions, like only typing in "sudo gufw". You then need to make sure to switch the status, so that it looks like this:


Or, if you want to enable it on the command line, this is the correct command:


Both is starting the firewall and setting it to autostart when you boot up the system. Gufw is only the tool to configure/manage your firewall, you don't need to autostart gufw.

To check that your firewall is actually running, for example after reboot, either check the status in gufw (see image above).
Or use this command:


Hope it's more clear now what I was talking about
Let us know how it goes...