From: "Kevin McConnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> --- Stephen H Carbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > How and what do I need to edit manually to disable
> > the firewall?
>
> If you want to completely disable the firewall, you
> have a few choices. If you feel more comfortable with
> graphical tools, simply run setup and goto system
> services and uncheck iptables, ipchains and ip6tables.
> If you like the command line, type: service iptables
> stop
> and then you can turn it on/off in certain runlevels
> using chkconfig by typing: chkconfig 0123456 iptables
> off
>
> and you can alternatively see if things are off/on by
> typing: chkconfig --list SERVICENAME ;
> where SERVICENAME is iptables, ipchains or ip6tables
> and it will tell you which runlevels it's on or off.
> If you run in graphical mode, you run in runlevel 5,
> otherwise you run in runlevel 3. If you want it off,
> turn it off in all runlevels.
> HTH
Note that there is a technical name for people who do
this and leave the machine connected to the Internet
that arose from the cracker world, "luser." Given how
fast I have seen hits on my firewall as I connect to
the net I figure the MTTH, Mean Time To Hacked, for
such machines is measurable in single digit minutes
or less.
{^_-}
