Setting the default firewall configuration (was Re: Attention, dependency fighters)

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Wed Nov 14 00:31:46 UTC 2012


On Sat, 2012-11-10 at 14:40 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 11:15:31AM -0700, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> > > is entirely irrelevant. To achieve the above, we don't need to make sure
> > > that the default configuration leaves port 22 open when firewalld is
> > > installed, but that the default configuration leaves port 22 open when
> > > firewalld is *not* installed. D'oh.
> > Well with firewalld not installed and no iptables configs.. I would
> > believe that the default would be everything open... unless some other
> 
> This is indeed the case.

And that's clearly not what we want. I thought it kind of went without
saying both that this would be the consequence of simply dropping
firewalld from the default install entirely, and that this would not be
acceptable :)
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