Firewall and user services that needs open ports

[Andrew Farris]

Izhar Firdaus wrote:
> I needed to print through a network printer a few days ago. But it
> doesn't just work. Seems like the firewall need to be stopped and
> cups-config-daemon need to be started (not sure bout the latter, coz i
> simply start all cups related services).
> 
> This raises a question, as Fedora turns on firewall by default, what's
> the plan for certain user services that requires firewall to be turned
> off (cups, gnome file sharing) ?? Something like PolicyKit but for
> firewall??. Ubuntu took the easy way of simply disabling firewall, and
> I doubt Fedora will follow that path.

There is no service which requires a firewall to be turned off... that does not 
exist.  What they require is configuration to function with the firewall on. 
Improvement of the firewall configuration tool would certainly be a good step 
forward, and perhaps more automated configuration via upnp, but turning it off 
is definitely the wrong move... no matter what service you're trying to get 
through it.

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