Services automaticly change firewall rules to open access to themselfs.
Steve Grubb
sgrubb at redhat.com
Sat Sep 1 12:25:34 UTC 2007
On Saturday 01 September 2007 03:34:29 Benny Amorsen wrote:
> >> Basically, what this means is, "don't allow incoming traffic except
> >> where root says it's ok", which might sometimes be what you want to
> >> achieve.
>
> AP> By the way, I still think that tis is a good idea.
>
> It would be nicer if the bind() failed in the application.
We now have rsyslog in the distribution. It should be simple to create a
configuration command that greps for iptables events and notifies the user in
realtime kind of the way that setroubleshoot does. As a matter of fact, what
might be even more useful is a command that watches for disk drive errors and
tells the user that its starting to see the hard drive fail.
But from a security point of view, I don't think its a good idea for apps to
be able to punch a hole in the firewall.
-Steve
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