Security Level Configuration (Other ports)

William Hooper whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net
Mon Oct 27 04:24:51 UTC 2003


Sean Earp said:
>I fire up
> the Security Level Configuration tool to open up these two ports, but
> there is not an "other ports" box (as apparently there was in RH9) to
> open up ports other than http, ssh, ftp, etc...
>
> My questions are as follows:
>
> 1) Any reason in particular that this feature would be removed?  There
> are about a million reasons why ports other than the standard 5 would
> need to be opened, and a simple interface (integrated into the current
> Security Level Configuration app) for customizing the (nonstandard) open
> ports would be nice.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=105827

Oddly enough, it is still there in redhat-config-securitylevel-tui

> 2) Am I going to have to play around with iptables at the command line
> to open up these two ports (if yes, just let me know, and I'll man/info
> iptables).

Any serious firewall work will most likely require iptables knowledge, or
a more advanced frontend (shorewall, firestarter, etc.)

-- 
William Hooper





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