Security Widget gives wrong firewall info for non-root linux users

[E3V3A]

The security widget is supposed to show the firewall status. This works great in Windows where 99% of users are running windows in single-user mode (as Administrator). However, in linux, in most distributions of the defualt installations, have to be root or use sudo with password in order to get the correct firewall info. I.e. to run sudo ufw status. This fails on several levels in the security widget.

There are 3 work-arounds:

1. by creating a new firewall group and add your user to it.
2. by enabling full access to the firewall indiscriminately to all users, which create a huge security hole.
3. run WTF as root, which is definitely not recommended, and create it's own issues with GO installation.

1 is the way to go and need to be documented

[E3V3A]

Whoa!... Going for 🎢

[E3V3A]

To disable need for sudo for ufw

Here is a description for Linux Mint

sudo visudo -f /etc/sudoers.d/ufwstatus

# Then add the following to that file:

# We need to add the "full" command as alias:
Cmnd_Alias      UFWSTATUS = /usr/sbin/ufw status

# Group privilege specification
%ufwstatus      ALL=NOPASSWD: UFWSTATUS

Now run:

# Add new group: "ufwstatus"
sudo groupadd -r ufwstatus

# Add the username (here "xxxx") to the "ufwstatus" group
sudo gpasswd --add xxxx ufwstatus

# We add all "root" user sbin paths for convenience
export PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

[senorprogrammer]

Accidentally closed, should not have been.

[E3V3A]

Great!