On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 07:48:00AM -0700, Adam Lydick wrote: > I haven't done more then look at the screen shots for it, but the > "personal firewall" (eg: iptables frontend) that comes with RH9 looks to > be default deny for most incoming traffic while providing a nice (read: > graphical and straightforward) way to punch essential holes through it > as needed. (and only as needed)
That could be a module within the debian-installer. Unfortunately, nobody has gone ahead and written one. There are quite a lot of firewall frontends a user can install after the installation [1] maybe someone could move the code from there to a debian-installer module? (..) > I recall seeing a firewall.sh script in init.d, but it was plastered > with warnings not to actually use it, so I didn't ;) Anyone know if more > work has been done in this area? You mean /etc/init.d/iptables, which is provided by 'iptables' (priority 'standard' and thus installed in most systems). It is one of the ways to setup a firewall but there is no GUI for it. Again, help is needed to address this issues so I suggest you fired up your favorite editors and write patches for them. Regards Javi [1] This is docummented already: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch-sec-services.en.html#s-firewall-setup
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