[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Okay, I accept initially I shouldn't have used
RedHat 8 for my desktop at work... (I finally got to
do this as a demo for people at work) I wanted to
show people how easy it was.

Excuses aside, the stupid "security settings"
program will NOT let me change any of the settings
from "HIGH." I can't even connect to "localhost" (
string[1000] cursewords).

I've tried to login as root and change them as well,
and they still won't change!

Anybody encountered this? Fixed it?

If I'm not mistaken, that GUI frontend for modifying security settings stores it's configuration in /etc/sysconfig/iptables. Check this file to see that its timestamp gets updated when you modify it through the GUI. You can start/stop network firewalls via the Server Settings->Services->iptables or from the commandline via:

# /etc/init.d/iptables
Usage: /etc/init.d/iptables {start|stop|restart|condrestart|status|panic|save}

panic closes everything off and stop opens the floodgates.

The thing to remember is that RedHat stores most (if not all) the configs in /etc. Most systems settings are in /etc/sysconfig
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*Richard Plana, B.Sc., CCNA*
Secretary
Calgary Linux Users' Group




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