Firewall blocking desktop features

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 09/11/2013 02:46 PM, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
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> On 09/11/2013 06:35 AM, Heiko Adams wrote:
>> Am 11.09.2013 12:30, schrieb Alec Leamas:
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>>> That said, I see your point.  Seems to boil down to that only the
>>> application knows which port(s)  to open and why, whereas only the
>>> firewall can guarantee  that it actually opens the ports requested by
>>> user instead of something else.
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>> So the application needs to ask the firewall to open one or more ports and
>> the firewall has to ask the user for permission to do so. In this szenario
>> the firewall knows what application wants which port(s) to be open. Letting
>> the application directly ask for permission to punch holes in the firewall
>> is IMHO the worst case of all and a securiry nightmare.
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> Asking my wife if she intends to open port 2345 is a waste of time.  She has
> no idea whether or not this is required.  And will quickly learn to answer ok.
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> Asking her "Do you want to make security changes to share directory
> /home/phyllis/Share?"  Or
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> Do you want to make security changes to share Printer XYZ?
>
> Would make sense.
My marriage would be facing serious troubles, if my wife opens any port 
on our shared machines ;)

Seriously, I think you guys are forgetting Linux isn't a 
Single-User-Single-Seat OSes.

Ralf