Securing Fedora?

Jack Bowling jbinpg at shaw.ca
Tue Nov 11 23:30:58 UTC 2003


On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 03:18:11PM -0500, Vanco, Don wrote:
> fedora-test-list-admin at redhat.com wrote:
> > I'm not sure if you know about it...but a good firewall, one that I
> > use on my Fedora web, e-mail, etc. server is Firestarter.
> > 
> > http://firestarter.sourceforge.net
> 	Haven't had a chance to look it over yet - but does it offer any
> hooks into the Fedora iptables "services commands" (saving rules, etc)?

Firestarter works independently of Fedora's own firewall system but it
fully utilizes the netfilter/iptables framework. If you use Firestarter,
you should turn off the Fedora iptables service to allow FS to run
things on its own.
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Jack Bowling
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