[TriLUG] Gnome port security app?

[Mike Mueller]

On Tuesday 07 October 2003 19:40, Jon Carnes wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 17:46, Mike Mueller wrote:
> > I was working with some folks today getting ssh access through a couple
> > of machines.  One machine was giving "connection refused" on ssh and
> > telnet (I'm working on them to deactivate it).  Then the owner did
> > something with a Gnome security app that opened the port and now they
> > both work.  The
> > /etc/host.allow and /etc/host.deny are empty.  /etc/xinetd.d has a telnet
> > file.
> >
> > I can't figure out what changed and I've already pressed the owner twice
> > for details with no relief.
> >
> > Can somebody help me solve this mystery?
> > Thanks
> > --
> > Mike Mueller
>
> What was the distribution?  Mandrake Msec  would do this. Also, there
> are plenty of distributions running GUI's that front-end various
> firewalls.
>
> Good Luck - Jon Carnes

Good hint.  I googled on "gnome security tools" and found that Gnome Lokkit 
manipulates /etc/ipchains:
-A input -s 0/0 -d 0/0 22 -p tcp -y -j ACCEPT
-A input -s 0/0 -d 0/0 23 -p tcp -y -j ACCEPT

where 22 is ssh and 23 is telnet.

Thanks.
-- 
Mike Mueller
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