On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 15:18 -0500, Sean wrote: > Well, the user is going to have to do something explicit to open up the > firewall on the local machine. Not if it scripted and/or plugged into system-config-securitylevel or whatever it is we use to manage the firewall locally these days. > But the fact is, if the feature is enabled on the router, there is nothing > Fedora can do to stop some malicious program from using it. So all > you're doing is stopping trusted programs from using the feature and its > still available to be used by untrusted apps. The feature really must be > disabled on the router itself if you don't like it. Just because it is enabled on the router doesn't mean that we should preconfigure applications to exploit it. Bad call. -- Jesse Keating RHCE (geek.j2solutions.net) Fedora Legacy Team (www.fedoralegacy.org) GPG Public Key (geek.j2solutions.net/jkeating.j2solutions.pub) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
