How to run 'ufw' without interactive mode?

Question

I want to run ufw Uncomplicated Firewall from python script but it usually runs in interactive mode. Example:

subprocess.check_output(["ufw", "enable"])

Has the following output:

'Command may disrupt existing ssh connections. Proceed with operation (y|n)? Aborted'

Is there a way to run ufw without interactive mode?

score 38 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 20 '15 at 18:33

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Use

ufw --force enable

You may want to have a look at the Gufw source code, it's written in Python. At least in Ubuntu 14.10 the calls to ufw are in the file gufw/model/ufw_backend.py.

You can download the source code using

apt-get source gufw

answered Apr 20 '15 at 18:33

Florian Diesch

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Example: sudo ufw --force-enable reset – Underverse Jun 17 '17 at 12:36
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@Underverse it should actually be sudo ufw --force reset – Bastien Libersa Oct 31 '19 at 14:04

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 22 '23 at 13:00

Despite it's an old question, this might be helpful for others. It's possible to use --force option for deleting rules. for example:

# ufw --force delete 1

I wrote this code snippet to delete all 20 top rules:

# for i in `seq 20`; do ufw --force delete 1; done

How to run 'ufw' without interactive mode?

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