rhl 8... overly protective security measures, or neophyte at the wheel?

[electrodejunkie]

I seem to be having some problems with the red hat 8 'redhat-security-config' tool. Regardless of how many times I try to adjust the firewall settings, it always reverts back to 'High' level security, which blocks everything coming in. During the inital installation, I configured the firewall at the 'Medium' level, allowing incoming DHCP via ethernet.

Is there a file I can rewrite somewhere? I have looked everywhere and can't find where the config file is being written to.

I had previously installed RHL8 and did not have this trouble. The only thing I could think of was the additional installation of developement packages, and sendmail. Sendmail has been removed, and still nothing.

If anyone has some pointers, I would greatly appreciate them.

Thanks to all!

-electrodeneophyte

[blizz]

Hi,

Do you have your iptables service running? To manual start the service, use the command:

/sbin/service iptables restart

I like mine to be started when the system is booted, so use the command:

/sbin/chkconfig --level 345 iptables on


You can not run the ipchains service along with the iptables service. To make sure the ipchains service is disabled, execute the command:

/sbin/chkconfig --level 345 ipchains off

[neondog]

or better yet remove ipchains entirely and stick to iptables