Hello, I'm on the way of configuring a hosted server and wonder why I should setup a firewall. AFAIK, a firewall have several goals: * secure an internal network, * NAT * redirect ports ...? none of these goals are relevant for a single host. If I understand well the Linux network way of life, no application is listening a port if not instructed to do so, so there is no reason to forgive a port access on a one root user host. single user will be restricted to sftp (in write sense) I have for now installed apache and vsftp and will have some more, but still very limited applications running is that basically good? thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org