Enable Firewall, But Allow Specific Inbound Connections

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 17:34, Angelo Machils wrote:
> >
> Hi there, don't know if anyone give this tip yes, but make a crontab 
> when messing with iptables which shuts down iptables after lets say 10 
> minutes (or enough time for you to test the new tables), so in case you 
> get yourself locked out of the machine, you will have access again after 
> the job runs. Yeah, experience :)


If you run Shorewall, there's a rule called "ABSENTMINDED" which does
_just_ that. The only caveat is, if you happen to lose your IP (eg:
dial-up) at the very instance, then you're "screwed" 

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