On Thu, 30 May 2002, Kevin Myers wrote: > On Thu, 30 May 2002 08:03:43 -0400 (EDT), rday wrote: > > >not sure if this is an issue or not, but the "lokkit" and > >"gnome-lokkit" utilities in red hat 7.3 appear to configure > >ipchains, when i'm assuming most folks will be using > >iptables. this might give users a false sense of security > >after the configuration when, in fact, they really haven't > >locked down anything. > > > >or am i missing something? > > I think it's worse than that, I suspect that if you run lokkit when iptables > is configured there's a good chance that it will succeed in configuring > ipchains, which will in turn stop iptables from starting again. > > Or am I missing something?
i'm willing to bugzilla this, but not before i can appreciate whether this is a serious issue or just an annoyance. IMHO, as i said, i think it's serious in that it deceives people into thinking they've configured security. but i'm interested in whether anyone else has a more educated opinion. rday _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
