securing Ubuntu and firewall

[H.S.]

Derek Broughton wrote:

>>Ubuntu on his home machine, but who is not a typical Windows ignorant
>>user (considering that he knows vi!).
> 
> 
> Heavens!  And he can't just manually type in the firewall rules at every
> reboot :-)

:D

However, he is not familiar with Linux system administration. He has
used Solaris and Linux machines at work but only as a user.

I use Debian Testing, so for me at least, knowing a text editor is a
must so that I can change stuff even remotely without the overhead of
GUI traffic latency.


>>I have so far found firestarter. Comments and suggestions are welcome.
> 
> 
> So far, I'm least _unhappy_ with Guarddog.

Yes, I have discovered this option as well. Have you given firestarter a
try? Just wondering if you knew how they compared.

As for me, I use my own iptables script which lives in /etc/firewall and
is started from /etc/networik/interfaces using the up command whenever
an interface comes up. I too couldn't find a GUI that was versatile and
powerful enough (I use masquarading, port forwarding, loggin, port
redirection, etc.). Moreover, a text script can be changed remotely.
Even more important, I wanted to how iptables worked.

->HS