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[Martin Pool <mbp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

So, without citing chapter and verse, I think it's a pretty good ui
rule that if the app "doesn't know" whether the firewall is enabled or
not, it shouldn't pretend to know about it.  The fact that it's
disabled in a clean installation is not really persuasive to me - on a
machine with gufw installed, perhaps it's pretty likely that it is
installed?

Some options:
 * hide the radiobutton until it's unlocked
 * replace it with text saying "unlock to show status"
 * require people to authenticate to use gufw at all (since it seems
that you can't do anything as non-root?)

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/850468

Title:
  firewall apparently disabled until you authenticate

Status in Gufw:
  New

Bug description:
  In Oneiric:

  1- install gufw etc, and start it
  2- click the lock and authenticate
  3- turn the firewall on
  4- quit
  5- (optionally, verify from the terminal that the firewall is still active)
  6- restart ufw

  what happens: it shows "Firewall status: off" (greyed out), until you authenticate
  what should happen: if the firewall state can't be reported until you authenticate, gufw shouldn't show something that looks like it's actually off

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