Re: [SLE] VPS & Firewall problem

From: Patrick Shanahan Organization: Ptilopteri in Pandemonium Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 09:10:58 -0500 To: Subject: Re: [SLE] VPS & Firewall problem

* Marek Mikuliszyn [11-04-05 02:25]:

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My question is: Could someone please tell me how to turn off this damn SuSEfirewall and configure firewall in future only thru iptables ?

The 'damn' SuSEfirewall???

Yast Control Center -> Security and Users -> Firewall -> Stop Firewall and Remove from Boot Process

Should take all of 60 seconds.

You may also have to do `iptables -F` as root; at least in 9.3 just stopping the firewall (and disabling it) left the iptables rules in place until after a reboot. And I'm not a fan of the firewall either...but I'm also using SuSE Pro as a server OS, and prefer to be able to set up firewalling with iptables directly.