On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 16:23:42 +0200, maynard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Is there any way that a user can tell iptables to allow a user to specify > additional ports to block other than the ones in the 'root' iptables > configuration. I do not know if there are security implications in this, but all > that iptables would have to do was to look for further disallows in the current > user's config directory, maybe under ~/.iptables/ > > If this is possible coud someone please tell me how to achieve it or something > similar. > > I am trying to run firestarter as a user level application, i.e,. without > needing the root password everytime I run it. Still firestarter needs superuser privileges in order to be able to modify the netfilter rules. You could disable the root password prompt for a specific user (or all users) via PAM.
