ufw

ERROR: 'Bad interface name' issuing ufw on valid, but non "ethx", interface names

Bug #568877 reported by Francesco Pretto
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ufw
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Declined for Trunk by Jamie Strandboge
ufw (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
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Declined for Lucid by Jamie Strandboge

Bug Description

Very simple, ufw doesn't accept all valid interface names. The command:

$ sudo ufw allow in on iaslab to any port 67

where "iaslab" is a valid interface name (in complicated environments is useful to rename interfaces semantically), results in:

ERROR: 'Bad interface name'

Solution: ufw should accept any interface name accepted by iptables. If you want something user friendly, ufw should warn at most that the interface is not present (just a warning, not an error). This wasn't my case because the interface "iaslab" was really present, but could help with typing errors.

Version:
$ sudo ufw --version
ufw 0.30pre1-0ubuntu2

Related branches

lp:debian/ufw
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Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) wrote :

This is failing due to:
        if not re.match(r'^[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9:]*[0-9]', str(name)):
            err_msg = _("Bad interface name")
            raise UFWError(err_msg)

You can work around this by adjusting 'iaslab' to be 'iaslab0'.

Changed in ufw:
status: New → Triaged
Changed in ufw (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)
Changed in ufw:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)
Changed in ufw:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package ufw - 0.30.0-1ubuntu1

---------------
ufw (0.30.0-1ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low

  * src/frontend.py: display unicode error messages properly. Thanks to
    Serguey Basalaev.
    - upstream commit r700
    - LP: #580032
  * src/backend_iptables.py: fix gettext warning
    - upstream commit r701
  * run debconf-updatepo, but adjust debian/po/de.po and debian/po/es.po to
    add correct "Language:" tag
  * profiles/ufw-mailserver: remove Postfix specific language
    - upstream commit r705

ufw (0.30.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release. Use 0.30.0 as the version even though upstream uses
    0.30 in order to sync to Ubuntu. Fixes:
    - LP: #568877
    - LP: #611982
    - LP: #606997
    - LP: #624199
    - LP: #625340
    - LP: #521359
    - LP: #436608
  * don't flush chains if ufw is not enabled (LP: #581744)
  * debian/postinst: don't source /usr/share/debconf/confmodule when $1 =
    triggered. Fix thanks to Colin Watson. (LP: #618410)
  * debian/control:
    - drop versioned depends on iptables. This helps with backporting now that
      the test suite can handle it
    - updated Standards-Version
  * debian/rules:
    - pass interpreter to run_tests.sh
    - don't install upstream application profiles for now
  * add rsyslog support
  * add debian/source/format
  * debian/before6.rules.md5sum: updated for ucf
 -- Jamie Strandboge <email address hidden> Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:20:58 -0500

Changed in ufw (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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Maciek Sujkowski (maciejus) wrote :

Can you add this fix to the ufw in lucid?

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