GUI firewall

Jeremy Conlin jeremyconlin at mail.weber.edu
Thu Oct 21 19:12:11 UTC 2004


On 2004-10-20 11:24:01 -0400, "Eucke Warren" 
<euckew at sierraelectronics.com> said:
>> You can separate various ports with comma:
>> 5901:tcp, 5902:tcp, 6900:udp, ...
> 
> You know....maybe I missed someone else pointing this out...but you can u se
> the "Security Level" gui in KDE or Gnome to get the iptables file built a nd
> then you can easily edit the /etc/sysconfig/iptables file.  Look at the
> syntax that the open ports have and then copy and paste a new line and
> change it to include the port you're after.  Once changed you can restart
> the Iptables service and voila!  I think it's pretty easy....  I came up
> through early MS and DR Dos so I got my feet wet farting around in the CL I
> to change things...I'll bet if you study that file a bit you'll be able t o
> see a pattern.  The hard part is figuring out which ports are relevant to
> you....once know I think the changes are easy.
> 
> Hope this helps...
> 
> -Eucke

I tried to do that including 5901:tcp but haven't been able to get it 
to work.  I still can't do vnc until I turn the firewall off.

Jeremy







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