On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 15:18 -0500, Sean wrote:
Well, the user is going to have to do something explicit to open up
the
firewall on the local machine.
Not if it scripted and/or plugged into system-config-securitylevel or
whatever it is we use to manage the firewall locally these days.
But the fact is, if the feature is enabled on the router, there is
nothing
Fedora can do to stop some malicious program from using it. So all
you're doing is stopping trusted programs from using the feature and its
still available to be used by untrusted apps. The feature really must be
disabled on the router itself if you don't like it.
Just because it is enabled on the router doesn't mean that we should
preconfigure applications to exploit it. Bad call.
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