On Sat, December 17, 2005 10:53 am, Michael A. Peters said: > Oh I see what you are saying. When trusted application foo is being run > by user in trusted group bar (or open for any user) - the firewall will > open ports xxxx to yyyy should foo request they be opened - for the > duration that foo is running. > > That would be slick. Yeah, you said more clearly than what i muddled out. Somewhere in the mix a policy could be set to force the user to agree/cancel or enter a password (perhaps just on the first invocation). If this dynamic-firewall service became common most network apps could be updated to use it. Hopefully it would make things easier for the casual user with a simple setup. Ultimately the dynamic-firewall service could even have an option to do UPnP or zeroconf too, and thus enable auto-port-forwarding for any app (if desired). Wouldn't surprise me to find out that someone is already working on something like this though. Sean -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
