FIREWALL STUFF

[Jean-François Gagnon Laporte]

On 2/21/07, Maurice Murphy <m1625 at rogers.com> wrote:
> I first of all tried Firestarter that comes installed with the Edgy
> package.  Unfortunately it seems to have some sort of a bug.  It also
> gums up my home network.

You might want to search on Malone to see if you are not alone in this
if not it would be helpful if you could submit a bug report.

See here for more : https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs

> So I removed Firestarter using Synaptic and
> loaded Gnome-Lokkit.  My question is, how do I set this up?  I see no
> menu item.  When I try running it via alt-F2 (sudo gnome-lokkit) run, I
> sometimes get what looks like a gnome-lokkit screen.  If I click the
> Next button, the screen disappears and nothing else happens.
> Suggestions anyone please?  Many thanks, Maurice

You might want to look at
http://security.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/06/26/1556259&tid=13&tid=35

Moreover, when you want to run a gnome GUI app with elevated
privileges it is better to use "gksudo" instead of sudo. For an
explanation why see http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/graphicalsudo

>
> PS Perhaps I don't even need a firewall?
>
On my workstations, I personnaly don't but I audit my computers to see
which port is open and why. AFAIK, Ubuntu as a long standing policy of
a "no port opens by default" so you should be safe nevertheless.

Hopes this helps,

JF

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