RH Taroon Beta Open Ports

Steve Dickson SteveD at redhat.com
Mon Aug 25 18:28:17 UTC 2003


rhldevel at assursys.co.uk wrote:

>On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>
>But to a lot of naïve users, firewalls are deeply technical things, that
>they worry will interfere with normal usage. As a result, I believe a number
>of such users will install with the firewall disabled, or stop it when
>attempting to get things working - perhaps never to (re-)enable it. Having
>things like X11, portmapper and rpc.statd listening on an external interface
>is asking for trouble, IMHO.
>
For network security firewalls are the answer... not disabling network 
applications...
All we can do is give them the tools... but we can not shooting 
themselves in the foot...

SteveD.





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