firewall

[chris gainsford]

First, I am very impressed with mint12, Lisa. It is now my operating system. I love it. I have a question though. How do you keep the firewall activated. Every time I boot up the firewall is off. Isn't there a preset firewall that should stay on when activated? I don't understand anything about firewalls.Do I have to use my password to activate the firewall every time I turn my computer on? Use the password and it activates. Turn computer off and on next time ways firewall off. Use pass word and it comes on. I don't get it. Could someone please sent answer to blackice181@aapt.net.au. This worries me a lot. Thank you for your help.

[viking777]

Open a terminal and type:

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sudo ufw enable

You should get the reply:

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Firewall is active and enabled on system startup

Then see if it starts next time by typing:

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sudo ufw status

It should say active.

If it is not started after that then maybe you need to disable autologin on system startup, but I am not 100% sure that affects it.

BTW I hope that is a temporary email address you posted above - unless you like reading emails about penis enlargements and viagra

[Oscar799]

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[Aging Technogeek]

Could it be that you are being confused by the requirement to enter your password to unlock the firewall control window?

When you first call the firewall configuration app, the window is completely grayed out. This does not mean the firewall is disabled, it only means the controls are locked to prevent unintended changes.

Clicking on the lock icon and entering your password unlocks the controls to allow you to make changes. If the firewall on/off switch says "on" when the window first activates, that mean the firewall is and has been enabled since the first time you turned it on.

I also second viking777's comment about the email address in your original post. You should never publish your email address on an open forum unless it is a temporary address for that use only, or you are prepared to handle the spam flood that will most likely ensue.

[lmintnewb]

Scoops up email address ! In the interests of saving some time chris gainsford, can I interest you in some generic viagra ?

If you reboot, run that terminal command viking gave you and the firewall is inactive, might check out this thread. Had a similar headache with ufw myself and managed with my usual combination of RAW TALENT and DUMB LUCK to figure it out.