Bug#567003: [z...@debian.org: Re: Bug#567003: firestarter does not install properly?]

2010-03-12 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli 
retitle 567003 please document how to start firestarter in README.Debian
severity 567003 wishlist
thanks

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 11:40:49AM +, ael wrote:
> I now have shorewall installed, so I may not be able to easily check

Eh, I'm a shorewall user too :-)

> > That is expected.  Firestarter does not start at boot without that file,
> > because (as in all firewalls) there is no reasonable default. *But* the
> > first time you run the GUI and you go through the process, you will get
> Ok, but it was not documented anywhere that I found.

Agreed.

So what I'm doing is in fact to retitle this bug so that the request is
to document what I've briefly detailed in this bug report, i.e. how to
proper use firestarter:

- which requirements are needed to start firestarter as user

- the fact that firestarter acts as a wizard and that only afterwards
  the firewall will be setup at boot time

Thanks for your bug report!
Cheers.

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Bug#567003: [z...@debian.org: Re: Bug#567003: firestarter does not install properly?]

2010-03-12 Thread ael 
> > (firestarter:3425): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
> > Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols 
> > specified are supported and host-based authentication failed.
> > --
> 
> This is the only issue here (see below for a discussion of how
> firestarter.sh is supposed to work), but AFAICT it is a fault on your
> side in not invoking properly GNOME applications which require root
> privileges.
> 
> For instance, you cannot simply do "su" in a user terminal and then try
> to start firestarter, that does not work.  On the contrary, if you run
> firestarter via a GNOME proper command such as gksu, it works as
> expected.

I now have shorewall installed, so I may not be able to easily check
that for the moment. I confess that I do not normally have sudo & the like
installed partly because the target is a netbook & I want to avoid bloat;
and partly because I find sudo laborious & cumbersome. Maybe gksu is not so
bad: I guess I need to try.


> That is expected.  Firestarter does not start at boot without that file,
> because (as in all firewalls) there is no reasonable default. *But* the
> first time you run the GUI and you go through the process, you will get

Ok, but it was not documented anywhere that I found.

> PS I'm not the firestarter package maintainer

So the lack of documentation isn't your fault :-) Thanks for the reply.

ael




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