-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Joe Shuttleworth wrote: > I want to use a program as a firewall for Iptables. > Is it OK to run a program as a GUI as root to do this, or would there be > problems with this? > Just use sudo, you probably can't login to X as root anyway.
> I was using Guarddog to do this as a normal user and it gave me this message: > > Since you do not have superuser privileges, Guarddog is running with > reduced functionality. Firewall scripts may be Imported/Exported, but > the system's firewall settings may not be changed.Since you do not have > superuser privileges, Guarddog is running with > reduced functionality. Firewall scripts may be Imported/Exported, but > the system's firewall settings may not be changed. > > Some other ones I was looking at are fwbuilder, firehol. Are these better > choices? They should all have the same limitation. You need root privileges to actually run the rules. You do not need these privileges to use the GUI builder part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpdbdEACgkQwRXgH3rKGfN/agCfTWdSyVfwDWdO4/PPZSlbTUCv B8gAn25keFU8Nx4vLD612Mn3eEDdDUGp =vHgd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
