On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 18:59 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > Because with a firewall up, an attacker would need to already have > access to the machine... Configuring services properly is security. A firewall is a last ditch attempt to stop fire spreading throughout a system. If you manage to bypass it, and people do (not to mention those who turn it off while trying to resolve some other problem, or configure one with gaping holes), then you can get into all the unsecurely configured services. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.12-78.2.8.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines