> Hello,
>
> please excuse me if this has been discussed or even solved before, but
> I could not find it in the archives.
>
> I'm in the process of migrating several gateways to shorewall-lite,
> keeping the configfiles on one central adminstrative machine,
> basically following the guide at
> http://www.shorewall.net/CompiledPrograms.html .
>
> As I understand it, the local /etc/shorewall directory on the
> administrative machine should not be used at all for the compilation.
> All that matters should the export directory for the host currently
> compiled. Because of that, I figured there should not be much reason
> to be root while compiling. (Deploying yes, but just preparing no, right?)
>
> I must have misunderstood something or nobody tried this before:
>
>   % id -u
>   501
>   % cd ~/svn/admin/shorewall/hosts/tim
>   % shorewall compile -e -C perl . firewall
>   /sbin/shorewall: line 134: /etc/shorewall/params: Permission denied
>   % shorewall version
>   4.0.5
>
> This is shorewall-4.0.5 with the perl compiler, both from the
> shorewall rpm packages by Simon Matter.

Thanks for reporting the issue, I have relaxed permissions in the
shorewall-4.0.5-6 rpms, would be nice to get some feedback how it works.

Regards,
Simon

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