Firewalld applet in KDE

[Ed Greshko]

On 01/24/2013 10:10 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-01-23 at 18:48 -0700, Ryan Rix wrote:
>> You can set per-network firewall settings in the Edit Connection dialog of the 
>> network manager applet.
> [Please don't top-post on this list]
>
> I see the dialogue, but it's not nearly flexible enough. For example,
> there's no obvious way of allowing access to a given port (service)
> which is one of the most basic requirements of firewall configuration.
>

I could be wrong....  But what I think Ryan was trying to convey was that for each connection (a.k.a. Interface) you could assign a firewalld zone and then configure that zone as you wish for all the services you want to allow.

Yes, you have to use 2 Tools.  One being "firewall-config"


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