[pkg-netfilter-team] Bug#935857: nftables: improvement for nft settings

westlake westlake2012 at videotron.ca
Tue Aug 27 01:30:51 BST 2019


Package: nftables
Version: 0.9.1-2~bpo10+1
Severity: important

there's a question on where firewall rules are supposed to be stored 
when it comes to nft on debian,

A user looking at nft's systemd service will notice that rules are 
stored in /etc/nftables.conf

Nftables.conf needs to have the header "#!/usr/sbin/nft -f"

but why not make it simpler for users and instead put the nft command 
outside of this file?  .conf files are not supposed to store executables 
at the header, that's non-intuitive and imho not a good idea.

other distributions simply keep rules only in this file without any 
confusing header executable..

this also makes it non-standard , .conf files are not highly not 
regarded to be treated as scripting executables...



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