On Tuesday 07 October 2003 19:40, Jon Carnes wrote: > On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 17:46, Mike Mueller wrote: > > I was working with some folks today getting ssh access through a couple > > of machines. One machine was giving "connection refused" on ssh and > > telnet (I'm working on them to deactivate it). Then the owner did > > something with a Gnome security app that opened the port and now they > > both work. The > > /etc/host.allow and /etc/host.deny are empty. /etc/xinetd.d has a telnet > > file. > > > > I can't figure out what changed and I've already pressed the owner twice > > for details with no relief. > > > > Can somebody help me solve this mystery? > > Thanks > > -- > > Mike Mueller > > What was the distribution? Mandrake Msec would do this. Also, there > are plenty of distributions running GUI's that front-end various > firewalls. > > Good Luck - Jon Carnes
Good hint. I googled on "gnome security tools" and found that Gnome Lokkit manipulates /etc/ipchains: -A input -s 0/0 -d 0/0 22 -p tcp -y -j ACCEPT -A input -s 0/0 -d 0/0 23 -p tcp -y -j ACCEPT where 22 is ssh and 23 is telnet. Thanks. -- Mike Mueller 324881 (08/20/2003) Make clockwise circles with your right foot. Now use your right hand to draw the number "6" in the air. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
