Well the fact that it's not running as root is not the issue here as GUI
should never run as root.
However, if you are part of the sudo group on the machine, you should be
able to change the default zone. The issue is/was somewhere else.
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Since 2015 for 2 years this bug where not be fixed.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1449631
Title:
firewall-config does not run as root after authentication
To manage not
