Configuration Tools

Vincent pros-n-cons at bak.rr.com
Tue Sep 23 15:06:45 UTC 2003


Looks like thinks have changed quite a bit with Firestarter since I last
used the GUI, the application links are in the right place, PAM works correctly
GUI is polished. oh and did I mention its already in Fedora as of last month?

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 07:53:17 -0700
Vincent <pros-n-cons at bak.rr.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 04:02:42 -0400
> Phillip Compton <pcompton at proteinmedia.com> wrote:
> 
> > http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/config-tools/
> > 
> > "
> > Here is a list of tools that would be useful but do not exist yet: 
> > ...
> > Firewall - configuration tool for IP Tables (something more finegrained
> > than redhat-config-securitylevel) 
> > ..."
> > 
> > Has anyone at RedHat looked into working with the firestarter
> > (http://firestarter.sourceforge.net/) people? Package available for RH9
> > and Severn from fedora.us[1] 
> > 
> >Phil 
> 
> Thank you, I was looking for those config-tools guidelines yesterday. Wasn't
> sure if tools had to be written in pygtk (darn, I don't know PY).
> 
> Before I learned how to write IPtables rules Firestarter was excellent.
> (still used as my base) Unfortunatly, the interface doesn't appear to follow 
> the same HIG as the others. Also its written in C not py so It can't be a config-tool.(?)
> 
> If someone decides to write this I have a few things I'd like to see in it like
> string matching which I think may still be an experimental module? So it could 
> have program egress filters somewhat like all the windows firewalls do:
> foo application is attempting to access 10.10.1.100 or atleast show up in syslog.
> Performance takes a very big hit from this module but an informative option couldn't hurt. 
> For the rest of the stuff, Firestarter should be the inspiration.
> They do alot of things really well like being able to add/remove rules on the fly, 
> NAT, setup wizards and good IPtables work.
> 
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