On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 00:19, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 23:14, Kevin Mark wrote: > > > you can read /etc/init.d/iptables comments for info. > > Hmmm. On reading, I notice a function named "initd_clear" called by an > argument of "clear". Running this leaves the system open - all targets > are "ACCEPT". > > The README in /etc/init.d points at the Debian Policy manual, and this > mentions several standard arguments for init.d scripts - "clear" isn't > one of them. > > How would I find out what (if anything) calls with this argument? If > some automated process is going to call this, it will leave my system > with an open firewall, and I need to know to plan around it. <snip> the script can not be accessed by anyone. it can only be called inside the script which can only be run by a root user. So it doesnt see to be security concern (but I'm not a security expert -- will the local guru commment) -k
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