Re: make gnome listen on localhost:*

[Chris Evans <chris ferret lmh ox ac uk>]

On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Derek Simkowiak wrote:

> 	If I understand Elliot correctly, he does not mean "A Firewall" in
> the traditional sense of a single box protecting a network, but "firewall"
> as in kernel-level packet rejection (instead of application-level
> 'rejection').
> 
> 	Elliot wants a general-purpose solution to the problem of open
> sockets on Linux/Unix boxes, and I think he has ipchains (on every single
> desktop workstation) in mind.

Perhaps such a solution has a place.

However, before I started using GNOME, I had very few problems with rogue
applications taking it upon themselves to decrease the security of my
system by listening on inet sockets ;-)

Cheers
Chris