How to turn off and disable the Fedora Core firewall |
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| by Oscar Sodani | |
| December 8, 2006 | |
 Oscar Sodani is a founder of Help2Go and owner of Help2Go Networks, an IT consulting firm in the Washington D.C. area. Oscar holds the CISSP certification as well as industry certifications from Microsoft, Cisco and Novell. If your Linux server is behind a hardware firewall, and you are on a trusted network, you may feel that it is OK to turn off your software-based firewall. This isn't always a good idea, but if you are sure, here's how to do it in Fedora Core: Switch to the root user with su (or run the following commands with sudo) /sbin/chkconfig iptables off The first command stops the Fedora Core firewall, iptables, from starting up on a system restart. The second command tells iptables to turn off right now. Have a question? Need help? Get free, friendly person-to-person help with your computer questions or spyware questions in our help forums! |
