[CLUG] Office Share / Comp 4 Sale / Pints Friday / WIPT

[adam beecher]

Ronan,

There are literally hundreds of GUI and console-based iptables
configurators, at least a dozen of which are extremely stable and capable,
so writing another one would be a waste of time and effort. There are /no/
decent web-based configurators though, and that's what I need and that's
what lots of dedicated server operators need; that's the target market I've
suggested from the start. So that's what I'd like to do. If you're seriously
concerned about security - as you should be - assign yourself the task of
"security overseer" and keep an eye on us or something.

adam

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cork-bounces at linux.ie [mailto:cork-bounces at linux.ie] On 
> Behalf Of Ronan Kirby
> Sent: 04 March 2005 12:58
> To: John Hegarty
> Cc: cork at linux.ie
> Subject: Re: [CLUG] Office Share / Comp 4 Sale / Pints Friday / WIPT
> 
> > Sounds like fun...... (well you know what I mean)...
> > 
> > The back end doesn't sound like my cup of tea , but sign me 
> up for any 
> > frontend/usability programming type stuff.
> 
> Just thinking about Adam's mail that started this thread - 
> does it have to be a web based interface? (there may well be 
> good reasons from previous thread which I didn't read). 
> Putting total control of your external security through a web 
> interface always makes me uneasy. It would have to safe guard 
> its self to stop people accessing it across a network without 
> your approval. So in other words - you screw up a rule (not 
> hard for a person using a new interface) and you could be 
> exposed. Where as if it's a local X based application, 
> screwing up your rules won't have quite the potential 
> repercussions. Of course you may want to use it on remote 
> machines, which can be done through SSH. Then also no need 
> for a web server to be running. Has anyone considered Python GTK?
> 
> - R
> 
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