Redhat8 Security level

[netmind]

I am using the "Security Level Configuration" (GUI) program in Redhat 8. It's set to "High" and when I change it to "Medium" and save the changes it doesn't really change. If I open the program up again it's still on "High". Any help on changing this would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Netmind

 

[netmind]

Forgot to mention I'm logged in as root

 

[w1nn3r]

I'm not quite sure what changes it may be making..but you may want to look at what firewall is installed(ipchains or IPTables) and after you change a setting do either iptables -L or ipchains -L to show the different rulesets.

 

[netmind]

Thanks. I'll check these out.

 

[HebbeLille]

Hi,
Just to let you know, I've experienced the same thing, also using RH8.0. What I did was just to leave those "settings" for themself, and installed another firewall. I found "firestarter" (

http://firestarter.sourceforge.net/)

to be a very "easy to configure and use" firewall, allowing you to setup the firewall using just a few mouseclicks, and it has a monitorwindow that lets you see the hits on your firewall as they occur (and they do!!)

Just a tip.

--xx--

 

[netmind]

Thanks for the info. I tried Firestarter and it works great. I also tried lokkit (gnome-lokkit) and that worked too.
Thanks again.
netmind

 

[oxide23]

the setup tool doesn't display the current setting when you start it. That is, if you set it to "medium" (whatever that means), the next time you bring up the setup tool for the firewall it will not display "medium".

 

[netmind]

Thanks,
I see what you mean about displaying the current setting... HIGH is first on the list; however, after I specifically set it to HIGH, access to my FTP and HTTP were "shut off" as it should be. After picking MEDIUM again nothing would happen, access was still gone. For now lokkit has fixed what I need.
Thanks for the info.