Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall
On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 17:09:10 +0100
Andreas Duffner <temp@smilingcat.net> wrote:
> Andrei Popescu wrote:
> >>>> I use ssh with X11 forwarding to manage the firewall.
> >>> With firestarter? How?
> >
> > [snip X11 forwarding stuff]
> >
> > If *that* isn't shooting a fly with a canon, than I don't know what
> > is.
[snip rant against console users]
Please read my other mail carefully:
"IMHO firestarter is only useful if you already have X installed"
If this is a multi-purpose machine which already runs X for some reason
then no problem, but having X installed on the firewall/router just for
configuration purposes is bad security practice.
If you want to do this on your system, you are free to do so, but
*please* don't recommend it to others.
Regards,
Andrei
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