On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 12:40 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: > On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 16:20 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > > Any thoughts on implementing automatically port opening for service > > that need to open port access in the firewall > > as in when service is started that needs port opening it would > > automatically read some firewall.conf > > file for that and open the port automatically according to those > > settings in the firewall.conf file > > ( add the iptables rules automatically when the service is started and > > remove those rules when the service is stopped ) > > > > Doing chkconfig service or service service start/stop and it would also > > open the port for that service in the firewall > > I think it's a great idea and would go a long way towards making things > more usable. One of the questions is do you do the firewall change on > service start/stop or at chkconfig time. And I'm a little bit torn on > that one. chkconfig time makes it "simpler" as far as not requiring > initscript changes. start/stop seems like it's probably more "correct", > but would then require initscripts to call a new function on start/stop Why should it be "more correct" to do it at start/stop ? It seem more correct to do it at chkconfig, so that even if you stop the service and iptables -Lv will show you what is the "normal" firewall situation. Letting services poke holes in the firewall is not something admins will really love, if I set a rule to block traffic for a certain service I _really_mean it and I don't want to have to change the init scripts or have to reapply the rule each time I start/stop a service. Also what networks do you plan to apply this to? (at minimum you have lo and eth0 interfaces, and you may have also tun0 or others) all? some? which? (I use samba + cifs on a pair of machines and I have firewall ruels to allow that _only_ on the vpn connecting the 2: eg. NO CIFS connections on eth0/eth1 etc...) Simo. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
