From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.5 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020809 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
You are correct. It does not read the current settings. This should be changed to a RFE (Request for Enhancement) to add this capability.
How is this an RFE an not a bug? It's a usability bug of unexpected behavior.
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.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 72678 ***