opening many ports without system-config-securitylevel

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Do, den 11.11.2004 schrieb DrBean um 9:32:

> What's the right way to configure the firewall without using system-config-security? I want to open a range
> of ports so I can provide passive FTp, but system-config-securitylevel requires you to specify ports one by
> one I think.

> It says the FTP server opens an arbitrary range of high ports that the client
> communicates through. And vsftpd allows you to specify a range with 
> pasv_max_port and pasv_min_port.

This topic was recently asked and answered. See

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-November/msg00322.html

You don't need to blindly open a port range.
 
> Greg Matheson, Taiwan

Alexander
 

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