Download NuFW 2.0

After two beta releases and just as many release candidates, the final of version 2.0 of NuFW has seen the light of day today. NuFW, which stands for Now user Filtering Works, is a comprehensive firewall that can filter each connection based on the user’s rights and the operating system used. It uses an ldap server to check the granted permissions and Netfilter to apply the set filtering technique. More information about NuFW can be found on this page. The changelog for this release looks like this:

The full changelog of NuFW 2.0 against release candidate 2 is:

• nuauth : fix period handling
• libnuclient : fix crash when specified hostname is invalid
• nutcpc : do not try to reconnect if password has changed, this will avoid to block user account after multiple retries
• pam_nufw : initial release

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