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Re: ipfw l b for users ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Herbert Rosmanith)
Fri Feb 16 02:22:49 1996
From: Herbert Rosmanith <herp@wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at>
To: longyear@netcom.com, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 20:33:59 +0100 (MET)
In-Reply-To: <199602151415.GAA00341@costello.longyear.com> from "Al Longyear" at Feb 15, 96 06:15:18 am
>
> Herbert Rosmanith wrote:
>
> > non-root users can do "ipfw list block". shouldn't that return -EPERM ?
> > i really don't like the users look at my firewall-tables o:-)
>
> For what it is worth, I wonder why you have users on your firewall in
> the first place. It is generally not a good idea to have user accounts
> on the firewall.
>
to protect my machine from particular sites. the machine is not a router!
it *is* an enduser system.
are you using "tcpd" to prevent other sites from accessing particular
services? I am using the firewall-code to do so.
