Le Mer 11 septembre 2013 11:23, Alec Leamas a écrit : > On 2013-09-11 11:11, Heiko Adams wrote: >> Am 11.09.2013 10:41, schrieb Ankur Sinha: >>> - These software inform and take permission from the user before >>> opening >>> ports in the firewall. >> IMHO it should be the job of the firewall to inform the user about an >> application that want's to open one or more ports and ask for permission >> to open that ports either temporary for the current session or >> permanent. >> >> > Is this a good idea? The firewall just knows aboyt an attempt to use a > specific port. It does not know which application which *really* is > trying to use that port. It could certainly make an educated guess, but > that's just not good enough in this context IMHO. > > OTOH, the application knows what ports it needs (even some which just > might be used later) and can also identify itself to the user. Seems > more reasonable to me.
The application can lie and propose to open X and then when user says ok open Y. The prompt really needs to be initiated firewall-side -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
