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Léa,

On 10/28/14 9:55 AM, Léa Massiot wrote:
> Christopher Schultz-2 wrote
>> A bit of warning: when modifying iptables, you need to be very
>> careful that you don't wipe-out any rules that allow you to gain
>> remote access to the server. For instance, if you have a default
>> rule to DROP all packets and an exception that allows port 22
>> (ssh) traffic, then flushing all the rules in a table can make it
>> impossible for you to revert the change without remote-rebooting
>> (or, worse yet, paying someone to walk into the cage and push the
>> reset button).
> 
> Yes right, fortunately I wasn't working on a remote machine.
> 
> On Debian Wheezy, the following set of commands actually disables
> the firewall: 
> ------------------------------------------------------- iptables
> -F iptables -X iptables -t nat -F iptables -t nat -X iptables -t
> mangle -F iptables -t mangle -X iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT iptables
> -P OUTPUT ACCEPT iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT 
> -------------------------------------------------------

You don't need that much complexity. Usually, OUTPUT is left mostly
unconstrained so you only need to adjust INPUT. You should set up an
exception to INPUT instead of actually flushing the whole table.

- -chris
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