Download NuFW 1.0.23

The NuFW program is an extensive firewall that can filter every connection on the user’s rights and operating system. It uses an ldap server to check the permissions and Netfilter to apply the filtering technique. For more information about NuFW, we refer you to this page. Version 1.0.23 is now available in the stable branch with the following announcement:

NuFW 1.0.23 is now available. It features some minor bug fixes and adds a new option which should improve interoperability with Windows domains which are case insensitive. In fact, nss winbind does not manage to find all groups for a user if the name is not in lowercase. The “system_convert_username_to_lowercase” option has been added in order to perform the lowercase conversion.

The full changelog is as follows:

• nuauth : fix of a possible crash on some arch
• nuauth : backport of fix in case of big user packet
• dbm modules : fix of a double lock
• system : new option system_convert_username_to_lowercase
• nufw : cleanup of mutex when leaving
• nufw : removal of useless test in packet server