[WBEL-users] easy to use firewall?

[Randy Kelsoe]

Ganeshram Iyer wrote:

>On Apr 2, 2005 12:59 PM, Randy Kelsoe <randykel at swbell.net> wrote:
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>>Ganeshram Iyer wrote:
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>>>Hello all,
>>>I am quite a newbie to the Linux server and am failing miserably in
>>>trying to setup the rules for the firewall that came with WBEL/RHEL 3
>>>AS.
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>>Try redhat-config-securitylevel or get firestarter:
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>>    http://www.fs-security.com/
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>Thanks for the fs-security suggestion Randy. The
>redhat-config-securitylevel does not give me sufficient options for
>samba & https. I will try that. My server is headless but does have X
>installed although the startup run level is 3. Could I SSH X to this
>machine and setup firestarter and let it run when I quit the ssh
>session?
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Yes, you can run the fs gui from a remote machine that has X running. I 
have the same environment as you have (server is not running X), and it 
works well. Once you exit the gui, the firewall stays in the same state 
(on or off). There is also an init.d script for when you reboot or start 
the machine.