lol, I'm aware of the risks, this is a test machine, on it's own
sub-network, behind a smoothwall firewall box
At 08:27 PM 10/26/2002, you wrote:
>From: "Kevin McConnell" <kevymac@yahoo.com>
> > --- Stephen H Carbin <steve@carbinworld.com> wrote:
> >
> > > How and what do I need to edit manually to disable
> > > the firewall?
> >
> > If you want to completely disable the firewall, you
> > have a few choices. If you feel more comfortable with
> > graphical tools, simply run setup and goto system
> > services and uncheck iptables, ipchains and ip6tables.
> > If you like the command line, type: service iptables
> > stop
> > and then you can turn it on/off in certain runlevels
> > using chkconfig by typing: chkconfig 0123456 iptables
> > off
> >
> > and you can alternatively see if things are off/on by
> > typing: chkconfig --list SERVICENAME ;
> > where SERVICENAME is iptables, ipchains or ip6tables
> > and it will tell you which runlevels it's on or off.
> > If you run in graphical mode, you run in runlevel 5,
> > otherwise you run in runlevel 3. If you want it off,
> > turn it off in all runlevels.
> > HTH
>
>Note that there is a technical name for people who do
>this and leave the machine connected to the Internet
>that arose from the cracker world, "luser." Given how
>fast I have seen hits on my firewall as I connect to
>the net I figure the MTTH, Mean Time To Hacked, for
>such machines is measurable in single digit minutes
>or less.
>
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