I haven't read this entire thread yet, but this sounds more complicated than you need. Red Hat /Fedora provides an excellent scripted interface for managing these (and other) services--at least their most common componants. As root, from any console prompt, type: setup The second link down is firewalling. Arrow down and press enter. Tab through, select a qualitative level, such as medium security, and select "customize" to go through and mark certain ports (such as incoming ssh) open. Two other important scripted utilities are chkconfig and service. Use the latter to stop, start, or restart any service on the fly. Use the former to set default conditions for any service in each of the six runlevels. To see what services you can manage via chkconfig (and service) do: chkconfig --list |more Tom and Esther Ward writes: > From: "Tom and Esther Ward" <tward1978 at earthlink.net> > > Hi, Jared. > In Red Hat 9 you have two choices for disabling the firewall. You can simply > stop the service will be down until you restart, or you can turn it off for > good. > If you just want to turn it off for a while you can use the service command > while logged in as root as follows: > service iptables stop > To restart the service: > service iptables start > If you want to turn iptables off completely: > chkconfig --level 35 iptables off > To turn it back on: > chkconfig --level 35 iptables on > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jared" <jared-stofflett at twmi.rr.com> > To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" > <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 11:04 PM > Subject: RE: Enabling ssh access in red hat 9 > > > > Can someone tell me how to disable my firewall? I have looked at my > > hosts.allow and hosts.deny file and see nothing but comment lines. > > Appreciate any info, I'd prefer a shell command I can exicute to editing > > a file but will take either. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca > > [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Tom and Esther Ward > > Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 6:54 PM > > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. > > Subject: Re: Enabling ssh access in red hat 9 > > > > > > Hi, jared. > > By default the ssh services port 22 are typically already started. You > > may want to nmap your computer to see if port 22 is open. If so it is > > iptables the firewall is not allowing access to port 22. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Jared" <jared-stofflett at twmi.rr.com> > > To: "Speakup at Braille. Uwo. Ca" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > > Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 5:14 PM > > Subject: Enabling ssh access in red hat 9 > > > > > > > How do I enable ssh access in red hat 9? Thanks, I searched on Google > > > but missed it somehow, probably wrong fraise. > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Email: janina at rednote.net Phone: +1 (202) 408-8175 Director, Technology Research and Development American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) http://www.afb.org Chair, Accessibility Work Group Free Standards Group http://a11y.org
