I like using gufw to manage the iptables firewall rules. It makes for a clean an easy graphical way to implement rules. I was having an issue with the preferences where “Autostart with session” was grayed out. After a little hunting with Google, I stumbled across a question and an answer at Launchpad, which is someplace I should be looking to first and foremost.

The answer to enabling that option is to simply create a directory.

mkdir ~/.config/autostart

Now the option is no longer grayed out and you can have gufw start for your every session.

You can install it from Ubuntu’s repositories. Make sure you have the universe repos enabled. You can find it in Synaptic or at the command line, issue:

sudo apt-get install gufw

It will need to download ufw and iptables if you don’t already have those.

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