[luau] Shorewall and draksec issues

[Mike Sonstegard]

Brian,

I have encountered this problem with a few installs of Mandrake 9.0 & 9.1
and found that the lockup/lockout situation was due to the fact that I was
using KDE as my desktop manager at the time. I got around problem by logging
in as root with ICEWM and then set the security in Mandrake Control Center
to a lower level. I was then able to go back to KDE and resume normal
administration. Hope this helps!

Mike


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Chee" <chee at hawaii.edu>
To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 11:13 AM
Subject: [luau] Shorewall and draksec issues


> I'm trying to use shorewall (aka draksec) on a mandrake 9.0 workstation.
> I've upped the security rating too high (can't get to some stuff) so am
> trying to bring it down now. The program gives me a dialog box saying
> "please wait...setting security level" but never comes back....it also
seems
> to be sucking up EVERYTHING the system has...can't open anything, nor can
I
> do a normal shutdown.
>
> Anyone got advise on draksec? Or should I just move back to firestarter
for
> a GUI firewall configure tool....(need something easy for user desktops).
>
> /brian chee
>
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