On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 10:56:09AM +0100, Rob van der Heij wrote: > > David Sainty from RedHat suggested that I "service ipchains stop". > > Gee, now my PuTTY ssh connection works just fine. :-) > > :-) The 'moderately secure' configuration for RedHat appears to deny > logon from the network. It will be interesting to see what 'tight' does ;-)
Well, "better safe than sorry" ;-) As well as selecting "high", "medium" or no firewall, during installation you can customize the firewall config to: - trust certain interfaces, e.g. ctc0 or eth0 - add firewall rules which allow in-bound traffic for certain services / ports. SSH (tcp port 22) is one of these services. After installation: - /etc/sysconfig/ipchains is the file that stores the firewall rules to be used. - "lokkit" is the text-based tool for re-configuring the firewall - this will re-write /etc/sysconfig/ipchains. - "service ipchains start" and "service ipchains stop" will activate and de-activate the rules as specified in /etc/sysconfig/ipchains. Regards, DS.. /* David Sainty, Open Source Technology Researcher, Red Hat, Inc. */ /* [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.redhat.com/ Facta Non Verba. */ /* Registered Linux User #23207 - http://counter.li.org */
