Firewall

[Kevin MacNeil]

On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 11:52:43PM +0000, Tristan Wibberley wrote:

> Does anybody have a recommendation on a firewall in ubuntu (main,
> universe, or multiverse) that is active before interfaces are brought
> up, and after interfaces are taken down (using ifup/down). I'm looking
> for one that's pretty easy to configure. It would be nice if it had a
> gnome notification tray icon or panel applet to notify when it caught
> something.
> 
> I'm currently using firestarter, but you have to start it manually
> (and its configuration is limited).

You can set firestarter to start automatically by navigating to System >
Preferences > Sessions, clicking on startup programs, and adding
/usr/bin/sudo /usr/sbin/firestarter.

You can make the password prompt go away by typing sudo visudo and
setting the NOPASSWD bit:

# Members of the admin group may gain root privileges
%admin  ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL


Oh by the way, I've just installed Ubuntu 5.10 as my main OS after 6
or 7 years on Redhat. The transition was amazingly pain-free. Ubuntu is
a very solid linux distribution and I'm glad I made the switch.