Bug 177735 - can't enable firewall within installer
Summary: can't enable firewall within installer
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-01-13 16:52 UTC by Alexandre Oliva
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-01-13 18:17:39 UTC
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Description Alexandre Oliva 2006-01-13 16:52:33 UTC
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Description of problem:
I dispute the wisdom of enabling boxes to be installed and booted up before the firewall can be set up in firstboot.  I can see that in some cases this might be what you want, but most often you should boot the box up already secure the first time.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
FC5T2

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install (no question asked about firewall or selinux any more)
2.Boot system up
3.Leave firstboot run unattended


Actual Results:  You have a number of services running without anything to protect them until you get to answer the firstboot prompt.

Expected Results:  Machine should be safe when it first boots up.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Chris Lumens 2006-01-13 18:17:39 UTC
When anaconda is done, you have SELinux set in enforcing mode and basically all
ports but SSH closed.  I say basically all because CUPS and mDNS are also open,
though you can't close those no matter what you do with the current
implementation of system-config-securitylevel (I have plans to fix that). 
firstboot is really only giving you the opportunity to open more stuff up, as
the defaults are pretty strict now.


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