[Wylug-help] firewall issues

[Justin Ware]

Thanks to all for their input on my question. I've decided I'm not going  
to worry about outgoing local traffic for all the reasons in the previous  
e-mails.

I will refrain from installing applications that I don't trust, and scan  
with anti-virus software regularly.

On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 09:25:27 -0000, Nigel Metheringham  
<nigel.metheringham at dev.intechnology.co.uk> wrote:
> This sort of thing should be configurable using SELinux.  I didn't say
> it would be easy!
John Hodrien <johnh at comp.leeds.ac.uk>
> necessarily safe).  I believe selinux can provide this sort of network  
> access
> control, but I've not looked at it.

Having briefly flicked through a presentation on Security Enhanced linux  
(http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/), it would appear to offer the kind of  
security policy where applications can be restricted to using certain  
ports. However, I'm just not prepared to go through the fuss of setting it  
up.

Regards,

J.

-- 
Justin Ware
justinware at onetel.com