-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday, 2009-05-03 at 08:05 -0700, Prasun Dhara wrote:
Hi,
Your method of posting this email is called "kidnapping a thread". Please don't.
In Suse we have a great tool like YAST to configure firewall but the desktop users faces a problem when they try to run some program which request to open a port are silently dropped by the firewall.. and they need to see the log and then open the port manually and the execute the program again... i believe there should be an interactive tool which will handle this situation..
For Example :If user executes a program(say xyz) which needs a open port, firewall should prompt the user that xyz program wants to open this port and ask for a approval (say user needs to enter super user password) and firewall will automatically allow the request and open the required port.
That would be a security risk, so the answer would be "no". If you really trust a user to do that, you could trust that user with the root password. Or a sudo script. Can you give an example of a desktop app that need such a risky behaviour, in Linux? I can't think of any. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkn973AACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XVegCdHbCIw1zviStl/XYkAd6vFMa6 0AwAoJJ3J+1MkD/5Y3G6ZJf1PaYPd/k0 =nde2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org