Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> George Hill wrote:
>
>> When you enable a firewall using
>> system-config-securitylevel and open <Trusted
>> Services> and/or <Other Ports>, when you disable the
>> firewall and re-enable it the settings that you
>> previously specified are lost. I do not believe that
>> this behavior is desirable: I think it would be better
>> for the settings to be saved. That way you could turn
>> off the firewall for testing and turn it back on
>> without having to respecify the ports that you want
>> open. Thoughts?
>
Ignore my earlier mail. I misread what you said. I agree that settings
should be retained when disabled. File a bug report.
I agree that the previous values should be kept. It might make more
sense for the enabled/disabled settings to be configure / clear firewall
configuration.
But then provide text indicating current service iptables status, and
add an additional button(s) as the enable / disable firewall service
button (which could steal code from the system-config-services).
Currently there is no indication in system-config-security that while
the firewall is configured it is not actually started ! [ie a place for
people to get *networkingly* done over].