Re: Is having a GUI on an OpenBSD firewall a serious mistake?

2004-10-12 Thread Siju George
Thanks a lot Nic, Jeff, Kevin and Russel for your inputs Good luck! regards Siju

Re: Is having a GUI on an OpenBSD firewall a serious mistake?

2004-10-11 Thread Siju George
Thanks a lot Fred, James, Russel, Peter and Shawn for the replies! good luck! Siju

Re: Is having a GUI on an OpenBSD firewall a serious mistake?

2004-10-10 Thread Kevin
On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 18:31:27 -0500, Shawn K. Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 10 October 2004 14:19, you wrote: > > best firewall: openbsd without a gui > > > > second best firewall: openbsd with a gui > > Would it help to firewall out connections from the world interface on > the stan

Re: Is having a GUI on an OpenBSD firewall a serious mistake?

2004-10-10 Thread Jeff Simmons
You can also install a basic X environment (i.e. just install xbase) on the firewall, then run your X apps and forward the output to a remote computer via SSH. Of course, locking the whole thing down via pf.conf and sshd_config. On Sunday 10 October 2004 12:19, Peter GILMAN wrote: > on the other

Re: Is having a GUI on an OpenBSD firewall a serious mistake?

2004-10-10 Thread Nick Holland
Shawn K. Quinn wrote: > On Sunday 10 October 2004 14:19, you wrote: >> best firewall: openbsd without a gui >> >> second best firewall: openbsd with a gui > > Would it help to firewall out connections from the world interface on > the standard X Window System ports (6000-6009 or so)? I would thin

Re: Is having a GUI on an OpenBSD firewall a serious mistake?

2004-10-10 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On Sunday 10 October 2004 14:19, you wrote: > best firewall: openbsd without a gui > > second best firewall: openbsd with a gui Would it help to firewall out connections from the world interface on the standard X Window System ports (6000-6009 or so)? I would think that would satisfy any securit

Re: Is having a GUI on an OpenBSD firewall a serious mistake?

2004-10-10 Thread Peter GILMAN
Russell Fulton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 19:24, Siju George wrote: | | > I ''ve read some articles on hardening OpenBSD and also received | > suggestions. They tell me it is not a good Idea to install a GUI or | > compiler on an OpenBSD machine that acts as a firewall. |

Re: Is having a GUI on an OpenBSD firewall a serious mistake?

2004-10-09 Thread Russell Fulton
On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 19:24, Siju George wrote: > I ''ve read some articles on hardening OpenBSD and also received > suggestions. They tell me it is not a good Idea to install a GUI or > compiler on an OpenBSD machine that acts as a firewall. Gui applications (particularly web based ones which ar

Is having a GUI on an OpenBSD firewall a serious mistake?

2004-10-09 Thread Siju George
Hi all, This question comes from the fact that I plan to promote OpenBSD and its use in my country India. I'll plan to start from my city Cochin state of Kerala. One of the major problems I face is that nobody has even heard of OpenBSD and most are used to MS Windows and GUI interface! So initiall