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dyfi
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GUFW-Firewall
« Thread Started on Feb 4, 2011, 7:41am »

Hi,

I have installed gufw firewall. It fails to open (after using password) with the following message:-

Failed to run /usr/share/gufw/gufw.py as user root.

The underlying authorization mechanism (sudo) does not allow you to run this program. Contact the system administrator.

Anyone any ideas please!

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Dyfi.

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Re: GUFW-Firewall
« Reply #1 on Feb 4, 2011, 8:00am »

maybe try 'su'?

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Re: GUFW-Firewall
« Reply #2 on Feb 4, 2011, 9:09am »

Thanks for that, status is shown as active.

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Re: GUFW-Firewall
« Reply #3 on Feb 4, 2011, 4:28pm »

I recently installed gufw and found that the "Firewall configuration" item for gufw, that had been inserted in the System menu, would not open. I solved this by editing the .desktop file for Firewall configuration in /usr/share/applications. On the line beginning Exec: change gksudo to gksu. A reboot is required to activate this change. Below is an extract from the file after editing:

Code:
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Exec=gksu --preserve-env --description /usr/share/applications/gufw.desktop /usr/share/gufw/gufw.py
Name=Firewall configuration

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Re: GUFW-Firewall
« Reply #4 on Feb 5, 2011, 6:15am »

Hi,

Thanks for the answer - it worked a treat!

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Re: GUFW-Firewall
« Reply #5 on Feb 6, 2011, 5:52pm »

Feb 4, 2011, 4:28pm, rc10b wrote:

Code:
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Exec=gksu --preserve-env --description /usr/share/applications/gufw.desktop /usr/share/gufw/gufw.py
Name=Firewall configuration

Yep, solved it for me also.

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