Whoa, the fact that the Firewall is on by default in Fedora (along with SELinux) is one of the reasons I choose Fedora over alternatives. -- Christopher L Tubbs II http://gravatar.com/ctubbsii On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 5:01 AM, Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > = Proposed System Wide Change: Workstation: Disable firewall = > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Workstation_Disable_Firewall > > Change owner(s): Matthias Clasen <mclasen@xxxxxxxxxx> > > The firewalld service will not be enabled by default in the workstation > product. > > == Detailed Description == > The current level of integration into the desktop and applications does not > justify enabling the firewalld service by default. Additionally, the set of > zones that we currently expose is excessive and not user-friendly. Therefore, > we will disable the firewall service while we are working on a more user- > friendly way to deal with network-related privacy issues. > > It will of course still be possible to enable the firewall manually. > > == Scope == > * Proposal owners/Other developers: Add a Workstation-specific service > configuration (preset ?) to the firewalld package that disables firewalld for > the Workstation product > * Release engineering: No action required > * Policies and guidelines: No action required > _______________________________________________ > devel-announce mailing list > devel-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
