On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 00:47, Matt Hansen wrote: > On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 09:24, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > > But of course leave the config file, so if you really want some other > > firewall config, or are setting up a machine whose purpose is to be a > > firewall, rather than to be firewalled, you can create that config. > > And there might be a GUI for creating a custom firewall, covering common > > use-cases for that. > > Havoc, > > Are you talking generically with that last sentence or is this in the > works? i.e. http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/config-tools/ states a > number of tools "that would be useful but do not exist yet". For example > it lists: > "Firewall - configuration tool for IP Tables (something more finegrained > than redhat-config-securitylevel)" The kind of firewall tool that item is talking about is something targeted at a system-administrator who wants to do more complicated things to the system than s-c-securitylevel allows. In other words, a firewall tool for someone who knows something about firewalls. s-c-securitylevel is designed to give non-techie users a decent measure of security without needing much knowledge. > What's the status on this tool and other tools listed there? One tool > that isn't listed that would be useful is a Mail server tool - could > take some of the complexity out of setting up Sendmail/Postfix (esp. > Sendmail). I suppose it's lack of RH developer interest/time? More a lack of time than anything. Ideally, non-RH developers could help move these forward - there are way more of you than there are of us. :) It would help if RH would get the public CVS server up and running with external commit access. Cheers, Brent
