On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 15:42 -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 3:25 PM, seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I wanted to make sure there was no doubt that disabling firewalls is NOT > > something anyone should do. > > There are different cases. Having the firewall on in every case is a > simple story, but it does break the user experience for e.g. the > "unmanaged home network, behind Linksys router" case. This is a > rather common scenario for the kind of audience we would like to > target with the Fedora desktop. > > While I personally just turn the firewall off and was considering > advocating that, one scenario we should consider is "public coffee > shop with wifi". What Windows Vista does is prompt whenever you > connect to a new network whether it's "home" or not. I assume if you > click "not home" (I forget what the option's called), it enables the > firewall fully. If you click "Home" it's either off or more > permissive. Something like that would need NetworkManager > integration. Making the user choose to turn off the firewall or enable specific ports(or port ranges) is reasonable. Making the default be no firewall is not reasonable. -sv -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
