Firewall for Bazzite

Good day, I have being enjoying Bazzite for 5 months now. It made me settle after trying several distros. I am wondering if it is possible to add a built-in firewall like Safing Portmaster. I tried to install it via rpm-ostree but never worked out, it says something about read-only filesystem. I do not want to mess with the distro too much.

It seems that someone find out how to install it on immutable distros with a script, still would like to read opinions from Bazzite devs.

There is also OpenSnitch. I don’t recall it installing to /opt so it should be safe.

+1 for OpenSnitch, I installed the local .rpm from their Github via rpm-ostree and it seems to be working fine so far.

Just wanted to thank you for referencing that script. It worked like a charm on Bazzite, but I followed someone else’s instructions in that thread to remove the “–show-progress” portion of the wget lines. Boom, went right through and worked fully right after rebooting.

In that case, since Safing Portmaster is a notable Linux content creator sponsor and thus would be quite known by a subsection of Linux user, would it be worth it to add the customized script into ujust/yafti?

Don’t know who to tag here about ujust & yafti (or Bazzite Portal), though.

This seems like it would be a great idea for Bazzite!

GUFW Simple Efficient Reliable solution.

Thank you!

People sometimes complain that they can’t randomly use instructions on the internet on our systems.

This is usually listed as a “con” when we clearly see it as one of our best features! Our users will never have to deal with this! :partying_face:

Bazzite has a firewall by default.

It’s called firewalld

You can whitelist services. You can change the default profile. It works on a per interface basis as well.

I was not impressed by firewalld !! It was Too complex to carry out simple firewall functions That I can do in Seconds on GUFW!!