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How to Stop and Disable Firewalld on CentOS 7

Written by Admin, Updated On May 7, 2019
centos, firewall, firewalld

This tutorial will help you to stop and disable Firewalld on CentOS 7 system.

How to Stop and Disable Firewalld on CentOS 7

FirewallD is a firewall management tool which is available on CentOS 7 servers by default. You can manage and configure network connections which traffic is allowed or disallowed to and from the system.

With the release of CentOS 7, FirewallD taken place of iptables as the default firewall management tool. For the security purpose it is recommended to keep enabled Firewalld service.

Prerequisites#

Before starting with this tutorial, ensure that you are logged in non-root user account with sudo privileges.

If you have not yet set up FirewallD or having any troubles in configuring it you can check this guide How to setup a firewall with firewalld on CentOS 7.

Check FirewallD Status#

You can view the current status of the Firewalld service by using the firewall-cmd command:

sudo firewall-cmd --state

You will get output as below and if FirewallD service is running on your CentOS system then it will print running message:

Output
running

Stop FirewallD#

If you want to stop firewall service temporarily, you can do it by running below command:

sudo systemctl stop firewalld

This change will be valid for the current runtime session only.

Disable FirewallD#

Once you will disable the firewall it will stop permanently. To disable the firewall on your CentOS 7 system follow below steps:

First, you need to stop FirewallD service by issuing below command:

sudo systemctl stop firewalld

Now you can disable FirewallD by typing:

sudo systemctl disable firewalld

This will disable Firewalld permanently but there are chances that it can be started by other service. To prevent that firewall being started by other services you need to Mask FirewallD by run below command:

sudo systemctl mask --now firewalld

It will print message like below:

Output
Created symlink from /etc/systemd/system/firewalld.service to /dev/null.

Manage FirewallD Services#

If you have disabled FirewallD services and want to start it again then following command will be helpful.

To unmask your FirewallD service on your system execute command:

sudo systemctl unmask --now firewalld

It will show output as below:

Output
Removed symlink /etc/systemd/system/firewalld.service.

You can enable FirewallD running following command:

sudo systemctl enable firewalld

Output will be as following:

Output
Created symlink from /etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.fedoraproject.FirewallD1.service to /usr/lib/systemd/system/firewalld.service.
Created symlink from /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/firewalld.service to /usr/lib/systemd/system/firewalld.service.

After enabling FirewallD service you have need to start it by run below command:

sudo systemctl start firewalld

Conclusion#

Finally, you have learned how to stop and disable FirewallD on your CentOS 7 system.

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