[firewall-guide] master: Updated the introduction. (f0f0e72)

sclark at fedoraproject.org sclark at fedoraproject.org
Fri Jan 9 21:01:18 UTC 2015


Repository : http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/docs/firewall-guide.git

On branch  : master

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commit f0f0e724adb6a10242d87799410dd54bb597f1f1
Author: Simon Clark <simon.richard.clark at gmail.com>
Date:   Fri Jan 9 21:01:00 2015 +0000

    Updated the introduction.


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 en-US/Introduction.xml |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/en-US/Introduction.xml b/en-US/Introduction.xml
index 5b2cefd..1ea5587 100644
--- a/en-US/Introduction.xml
+++ b/en-US/Introduction.xml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 	Firewalls prevent network packets from accessing the system&#39;s network interface. If a request is made to a port that is blocked by a firewall, the request is ignored. If a service is listening on one of these blocked ports, it does not receive the packets and is effectively disabled. For this reason, care should be taken when configuring a firewall to block access to ports not in use, while not blocking access to ports used by configured services.
 	</para>
 	<para>
-	For most users, the best tool for configuring a simple firewall is the graphical firewall configuration tool which ships with &PRODUCT;: the <application>Firewall Administration Tool</application> (<command>system-config-firewall</command>). This tool creates broad <command>iptables</command> rules for a general-purpose firewall using a control panel interface.
+	For most users, the best tool for configuring a simple firewall is the <application>Firewall Configuration</application> application (<command>firewall-config</command>), the graphical firewall configuration tool that ships with &PRODUCT;.
 	</para>
 <!--	<para>
 	For advanced users and server administrators, manually configuring a firewall with <command>iptables</command> is probably a better option. Refer to <xref linkend="sect-Security_Guide-Using_Firewalls" /> for more information.



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