Re: RH Taroon Beta Open Ports

[Steve Dickson <SteveD redhat com>]

rhldevel assursys co uk wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>
> But to a lot of naïve users, firewalls are deeply technical things, that
> they worry will interfere with normal usage. As a result, I believe a number
> of such users will install with the firewall disabled, or stop it when
> attempting to get things working - perhaps never to (re-)enable it. Having
> things like X11, portmapper and rpc.statd listening on an external interface
> is asking for trouble, IMHO.
For network security firewalls are the answer... not disabling network 
applications...
All we can do is give them the tools... but we can not shooting 
themselves in the foot...

SteveD.