Re: Guarddog root login problem

Mark Neidorff <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.guarddog
Message-ID <[email protected]>
That is correct behavior.  Guarddog should only modify the firewall rules by 
the root user.  Your method of working with guarddog is the right way to use 
it.  Why didn't it work that way before?  I don't know.  Perhaps the version 
was hacked to allow non-root users to modify the firewall.  

Mark

On Sunday 06 August 2006 09:18 am, Robert Beck wrote:
> For some reason, I am unable to log in to change my settings in Guarddog
> from KDE. The dialogue gives me the opportunity several times, then opens
> as a non-admin users so I can't make any changes; just view what's there.
> As a workaround, I can go through a terminal as root and it works fine. I
> uninstalled and reinstalled Guarddog without any change in behavior. Having
> the problem on my recently installed PCLinuxOS minime .93a. Didn't have the
> problem with prior versions of PCLinux or with the MEPIS distro I'm running
> Guarddog on in another slice. Suggestions?

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