Where are firewall settings in Kubuntu?
Frederik Dannemare
frederik at dannemare.net
Thu Mar 31 12:30:33 UTC 2005
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 22:02, Rafa wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 19:48:17 +0000, Peter Barnes <pjb at operamail.com>
wrote:
> > After a silly problem with my CD (solved by you people out
> > there, thanks) I now have Kubuntu installed - as of about
> > 10 minutes ago. As a newbie I have tried several distros
> > and, after installing, always go first to check that a
> > firewall is set up (e.g. it is off when you instal
> > Mandrake, on when you instal Fedora). But where do I find
> > the firewall settings in Kubuntu using the GUI?
> > Thanks,
> > Peter
>
> To the best of my knowledge, Ubuntu doesn't install a firewall by
> default. Instead, I chose to install "firehol" via the Universe
> repository. It's easy to admin. No need to learn cryptic iptables
> codes and yet very easy to customize and with good granularity.
I can only second this. FireHOL is excellent and very easy to get
started with.
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