On Thursday 03 January 2002 18:28 pm, Joel Hammer wrote:
> I would STRONGLY urge you not to use any script for your security.
> Scripts are basically black boxes. You can't rely on a black box. You have
> to know about security.
> I would learn to set up some ipchains rules, or get a set of rules from
> somewhere, and then edit them with vi or some simple editor which won't try
> to mess them up to much with inserting line feeds and such.
> The commands:
> ipchains-save > myrules
> vi myrules
> ipchains -F
> cat myrules | ipchains-restore -f
> are all that you need to do.
> (Oh yes. You can't do this on a telnet connection. ipchains -F closes down
> my firewall since I have all defaults as deny.)
> This method is all I have used for serveral years to keep my firewall
> working just fine.
Yes but.... ipchains is a dead issue.
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+ Bruce S. Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bellaire, MI 01/03/02 18:41 +
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"A computer, to print out a fact, Will divide, multiply, and subtract.
But this output can be No more than debris,
If the input was short of exact." -- Gigo
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