Re: No firewall and X server listening globally

[email protected] Fri, 22 May 2015 12:47:22 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.suse.security
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Thank you for your report

On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 12:06:05PM +0200, Johannes Segitz wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 03:47:07PM +0300, Uwe Geuder wrote:
> > I have installed several OpenSUSE machines during recent years and I
> > believe they always enabled the firewall by default.
> 
> The are in the default install, but apparently not on the live CDs. I'm
> currently working on enabling the firewall by default. For now the firewall
> has to be enabled manually either before installing or after the install.

For the live DVDs (at least for KDE) the firewall is not active, so if you
install it uses this configuration. Changing the existing live DVDs is
problematic (and there is already a warning message "Some alternative media
(eg. live and rescue systems) are also available, although they are less
tested and recommended for only limited use. ").

I submitted a fix so that the next version will enable the firewall by
default and also submitted changed release notes, that warn of this problem
and show how to enable the firewall.

Johannes
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