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0003949Kali LinuxGeneral Bugpublic2017-04-04 23:432017-04-05 07:57
Reportereast Assigned Torhertzog  
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityalways
Status resolvedResolutionfixed 
Product Version2016.2 
Fixed in Version2017.1 
Summary0003949: UFW not enabled on boot, has to be started manually
Description

On recent Kali installs, UFW has been consistently broken. This goes back to the 2016.1 release if I recall.

I have reinstalled multiple times, and the issue has not gone away. I am running the latest weekly release on a Lenovo L512 laptop.

All packages have been updated.

Once installed, I run ufw enable. It says "Firewall active and enabled on system startup". Upon reboot, it is not automatically enabled.

Steps To Reproduce

Terminal:

apt-get install ufw
enable ufw
ufw status
reboot
ufw status

Additional Information

I have been working around this by adding the start command to rc.local. This is also broken with the latest version (separate bug report).

I have also tested this on a VM, with the same results. The VM was 2016.2, the 64 bit version. It is the official virtualbox version from kali.org

Activities

rhertzog

rhertzog

2017-04-05 07:55

administrator   ~0006558

I guess that "systemctl status ufw.service" says that the service is disabled. I have modified our default policy so that it gets enabled by default on a new installation.

You can fix it with "systemctl enable ufw.service".
rhertzog

rhertzog

2017-04-05 07:57

administrator   ~0006559

Should be fixed with base-files 2017.1.0. If you install ufw while you have the new base-files, then it should be enabled by default.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2017-04-04 23:43 east New Issue
2017-04-05 07:55 rhertzog Note Added: 0006558
2017-04-05 07:57 rhertzog Assigned To => rhertzog
2017-04-05 07:57 rhertzog Status new => resolved
2017-04-05 07:57 rhertzog Resolution open => fixed
2017-04-05 07:57 rhertzog Fixed in Version => 2017.1
2017-04-05 07:57 rhertzog Note Added: 0006559