On 11-Jul-04, 05:01 (CDT), Jean-Michel Kelbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * Package name : nufw
> Version : 0.8.0
> Upstream Author : Eric Leblond, Vincent Deffontaines
> * URL : http://www.example.org/
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I don't think so.
> Description : NuFW, an Authentication Firewall Suite for Linux
>
> Users have always been the core of companies. It is also true at the
> network level and this is more and more true with the increase of
> mobility and the spreading of multi users operating systems. But
> classical packets filtering systems still forget about users and only
> care about IP adresses.
>
> NuFW gives back users the place they deserve. It is an authenticating
> gateway, which means that connections are authenticated before being
> forwarded through the gateway.
>
> The daemons currently run on Linux and software clients are available
> for Windows and Linux.
That's a nice manifesto, but doesn't really measure up as a useful
description.
General note to ITPers: copying the frontpage of a project webpage for
the long description is almost *never* the right thing to do.
Steve
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Steve Greenland
The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating
system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the
world. -- seen on the net
