Firewall « SliTaz Forum

SliTaz Forum » English Support » Live and installation

Firewall

(9 posts) (3 voices)

Started 11 years ago by Thunderbird
Latest reply from Thunderbird
This topic is not a support question

Tags:

No tags yet.

Thunderbird

offline
Member

Still pretty new (one week or so into Slitaz) so please continue to be gentle with me.

Got Slitaz running beautifully now with the apps I need (thanks again Trixar) on my 10 year old Dell Inspiron 2650. It flies, 2 minutes from a cold boot (on USB 1.1) to fully functional against about 15 minutes with XP which is fully installed with as much bloat as possible removed.

Now for Firewalls.

Read loads of threads but I am confused. Many appear to be saying that there is a Firewall built in but some say its not live and others say it is. On boot up as the script scrolls down I can see the word "firewall" but it scrolls too fast to read what it says.

My experience of Linux Firewalls is with UFW (on Xubuntu and Mint) which I guess is of no use in SliTaz. However, on one thread I found a reference to the command "tazhw setup firewall", tried it on the live CD and it appeared to load up something but is it what I need and does it need further fine tuning. Or is there a better way?

Thanks again.

Paul

Posted 11 years ago #
mojo

offline
Key Master

Connect to the internet.
Open terminal login root password root
hwsetup firewall
hwsetup script should install iptables change IPTABLES=no to IPTABLES=yes in /etc/firewall.conf
and start firewall with /etc/init.d/firewall start
Read this: http://doc.slitaz.org/en:handbook:networkconf ==> Manage the Firewall (firewall) using Iptables

Posted 11 years ago #
Thunderbird

offline
Member

Thanks for the reply mojo. 4 quick questions, as I said I am very new to this.

What is the difference between "tazhw setup firewall" and "hwsetup firewall".

I log in as su then password root, is that the same as logging in as root password root.

Once done does it start the firewall every time I start the computer.

Having looked at the link I am still none the wiser, does the firewall require any further setting up to be really effective.

Thanks.

Paul

Posted 11 years ago #
Trixar_za

offline
Key Master

Probably not. The default Iptables configuration in firewall.conf was written so it would be good enough for most standard situations.

Here is a more in depth post about it: http://vanilla.slitaz.org/index.php?p=/discussion/comment/12319#Comment_12319

Posted 11 years ago #
Thunderbird

offline
Member

Thanks for that Trixar, think I am a "standard situation".

Any clues on my first 3 points please?

Paul

Posted 11 years ago #
Trixar_za

offline
Key Master

1. tazhw is how you do hardware setup and detection in SliTaz.

2. Using su is the recommended way to use root priviledges without having to login as root. Logging in as root is pretty unsecure for a number of reasons.

3. Yes, the firewall gets loaded at boot.

Posted 11 years ago #
Thunderbird

offline
Member

Thanks Trixar.

With the firewall loaded I should be sorted and able to use SliTaz with confidence.

Your comment about logging in as root is what made me nervous about Puppy, it worked great out of the box but I felt insecure since working as root was the only option. The extra work it has taken to set up SliTaz has been worth while IMHO.

One last question, with UFW there is a simple command to check firewall status, is there an equivalent in SliTaz.

Thanks all for a great operating system that has rescued my old laptop from the dump.

Paul

Posted 11 years ago #
Trixar_za

offline
Key Master

Either /etc/init.d/firewall status or iptables -nL in the terminal should show the status of the firewall, but I agree, this isn't exactly the ideal way to check :/

Btw, you can also setup a passwordless sudo command in SliTaz (which is what I use), so switching to root is as simple as sudo su for me.

Posted 11 years ago #
Thunderbird

offline
Member

Excellent, thanks.

Posted 11 years ago #

RSS feed for this topic

Reply

You must log in to post.