Bug 75350

Summary:	RFE: redhat-config-securitylevel does not display changes in the firewall rules
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Ted Clark <bison>
Component:	redhat-config-securitylevel	Assignee:	Brent Fox <bfox>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	8.0	CC:	gczarcinski, okapi
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Description Ted Clark 2002-10-07 15:36:23 UTC

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Description of problem:
redhat-config-securitylevel does not display changes in the firewall rules.  If
I run redhat-config-securitylevel, select "customize", and allow incoming SSH,
it works, but the next time I run redhat-config-securitylevel it displays the
default rules again, even though incoming SSH is working.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run redhat-config-securitylevel
2. Select "customize" and click the checkbox to allow incoming SSH
3. Save changes and exit; run redhat-config-securitylevel again
	

Actual Results:  The firewall rules are changed, but the changes are not shown
when redhat-config-securitylevel is run again.

Expected Results:  redhat-config-securitylevel should display the currently set
firewall rules.

Additional info:

redhat-config-securitylevel-1.0.1-1

Comment 1 Gene Czarcinski 2002-10-07 19:27:15 UTC

You are correct. It does not read the current settings.  This should be changed
to a RFE (Request for Enhancement) to add this capability.

Comment 2 Steve Wardell 2002-10-13 18:22:07 UTC

How is this an RFE an not a bug? It's a usability bug of unexpected behavior.

Comment 3 Gene Czarcinski 2002-10-13 18:30:45 UTC

It is "working as designed" and it is working in the same way as the package
from previous releases that it replaces (lokkit).

I do not disagree that it should read the old configurations but it is currently
designed to start fresh every time.

Changing this from an problem to an enhancement will not do anything to increase
or decrease the chance the Red Hat will fix this.

What we really need is a much more elaborate tool with the capability of
building a real firewall but that would be far more work to create and I suspect
that Red Hat's energies are placed elsewhere.

Comment 4 Brent Fox 2002-10-14 16:12:26 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 72678 ***