FIREWALL STUFF

Thu Feb 22 09:54:38 UTC 2007

Hi Maurice:
I am  kind of noob to this stuff and dont know much,
however I faced the same problems with firewalls. This
is what I did if you want to use Lokkit don't use
gnome-lokkit.

In terminal type sudo lokkit
it opens up a window with options choose High security
and using tab move to OK and hit enter. Lokkit should
get started.

If you type sudo lokkit a second time and try to set
it up using the same options it will show that ip
chain tables exist. Well this kind of confirms it is
up and running.

But you  have to start lokkit every time you restart
you system.

If you want to use firestarter what I found was that
there are lot of libraries that are needed
dependencies i guess.

If you download automatix2 for try to install
firestarter from automatix it works because automatix
downloads all the dependencies... this worked for me.

http://www.getautomatix.com/

Hope this helps.

Regrads,
Stan

--- Maurice Murphy <m1625 at rogers.com> wrote:

> Jaimie,
> 
> Here's the error message:
> 
> Gdk-ERROR **: BadMatch (invalid parameter
> attributes)
>   serial 2136 error_code 8 request_code 62
> minor_code 0
> 
> Doesn't mean much to me, though!
> 
> Maurice
> 
> Jaime Thomas wrote:
> > Try running Lokkit from the terminal and posting
> the error it prints out.
> >
> > Jaime
> >
> > On 2/21/07, *Maurice Murphy* < m1625 at rogers.com 
> > <mailto:m1625 at rogers.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Alfred,
> >
> >     Many thanks!  Router password changed.
> >
> >     Maurice
> >
> >     Alfred wrote:
> >>     Hi:
> >>
> >>     If you are behind a Router, make sure that
> you use a password other than
> >>     the Default Password, because then you are in
> Grave Danger!
> >>
> >>     Yahoo had some articles in the Tech section
> of the news yesterday,
> >>
> >>     stating that there is a new way that machines
> can be hacked, especially
> >>     when they are on a Router, and using the
> default password!
> >>
> >>     Alfred!
> >>
> >>     On Wed, 2007-21-02 at 20:22 -0500, Maurice
> Murphy wrote:
> >>       
> >>           
> >>>     Many thanks, Jean-François. I have added a
> comment to an existing bug 
> >>>     report against Firestarter.
> >>>
> >>>     I have also tried gksudo instead of sudo.
> Unfortunately, all I get is 
> >>>     the first Gnome-Lokkit screen. As soon as I
> click the next button, the 
> >>>
> >>>     screen disappears and nothing else happens.
> I will do some more research 
> >>>     to see if anyone else has this problem.
> >>>
> >>>     Please note that your namesake thinks that,
> without a firewall, I'm 
> >>>     exposing my machines to grave danger. I'm
> behind a router. Perhaps that 
> >>>
> >>>     will help protect me?
> >>>
> >>>     Thanks again to both J-Fs. Maurice
> >>>
> >>>     Jean-François Gagnon Laporte wrote:
> >>>         
> >>>>     On 2/21/07, Maurice Murphy
> <m1625 at rogers.com> <mailto:m1625 at rogers.com> wrote:
> >>>>       
> >>>>           
> >>>>>     I first of all tried Firestarter that
> comes installed with the Edgy
> >>>>>     package.  Unfortunately it seems to have
> some sort of a bug.  It also
> >>>>>     gums up my home network.
> >>>>>         
> >>>>>             
> >>>>     You might want to search on Malone to see
> if you are not alone in this
> >>>>     if not it would be helpful if you could
> submit a bug report.
> >>>>
> >>>>       
> >>>>           
> >>>     See here for more :
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs
> >>>         
> >>>>       
> >>>>           
> >>>>>     So I removed Firestarter using Synaptic
> and
> >>>>>     loaded Gnome-Lokkit.  My question is, how
> do I set this up?  I see no
> >>>>>     menu item.  When I try running it via
> alt-F2 (sudo gnome-lokkit) run, I
> >>>>>     sometimes get what looks like a
> gnome-lokkit screen.  If I click the
> >>>>>
> >>>>>     Next button, the screen disappears and
> nothing else happens.
> >>>>>     Suggestions anyone please?  Many thanks,
> Maurice
> >>>>>         
> >>>>>             
> >>>>     You might want to look at
> >>>>    
>
http://security.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/06/26/1556259&tid=13&tid=35
> >>>>     
>
<http://security.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/06/26/1556259&tid=13&tid=35>
> >>>>
> >>>>     Moreover, when you want to run a gnome GUI
> app with elevated
> >>>>     privileges it is better to use "gksudo"
> instead of sudo. For an
> >>>>     explanation why see 
> >>>>    
> http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/graphicalsudo
> >>>>
> >>>>       
> >>>>           
> >>>>>     PS Perhaps I don't even need a firewall?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>         
> >>>>>             
> >>>>     On my workstations, I personnaly don't but
> I audit my computers to see
> >>>>     which port is open and why. AFAIK, Ubuntu
> as a long standing policy of
> >>>>     a "no port opens by default" so you should
> be safe nevertheless.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>     Hopes this helps,
> >>>>
> >>>>     JF
> >>>>
> >>>>       
> >>>>           
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> >>>>>             
> >>>>       
> >>>>           
> >>       
> >
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