Bug#258746: ITP: nufw -- NuFW, an Authentication Firewall Suite for Linux

[Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net>]

On 11-Jul-04, 05:01 (CDT), Jean-Michel Kelbert <kelbert@debian.org> wrote: 
> * Package name    : nufw
>   Version         : 0.8.0
>   Upstream Author : Eric Leblond,  Vincent Deffontaines 
> * URL             : http://www.example.org/
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I don't think so.


>   Description     : NuFW, an Authentication Firewall Suite for Linux
> 
> Users have always been the core of companies. It is also true at the
> network level and this is more and more true with the increase of
> mobility and the spreading of multi users operating systems. But
> classical packets filtering systems still forget about users and only
> care about IP adresses.
> 
> NuFW gives back users the place they deserve. It is an authenticating
> gateway, which means that connections are authenticated before being
> forwarded through the gateway.
> 
> The daemons currently run on Linux and software clients are available
> for Windows and Linux. 

That's a nice manifesto, but doesn't really measure up as a useful
description.

General note to ITPers: copying the frontpage of a project webpage for
the long description is almost *never* the right thing to do.

Steve

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Steve Greenland
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    system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the
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