On 04.11.2021 at 10:44, Janis Papanagnou scribbled:
(Lately there seem to be quite some off-topic posts here in CUS.)
On 04.11.2021 08:57, hongy...@gmail.com wrote:
It's well-known that manually add/remove/design iptables rule is tedious/cumbersome/error-prone. I want to know if there is any
powerful and feature-rich iptables GUI available on Linux? I've
tried fwbuilder, but it doesn't meet my expectations.
There used to (and still may) be something called WebMin, which was/is a complete browser-based GNU/Linux administration user interface, and I
believe — but don't pin me down on this — that it also had/has a
firewall section.
You would simply direct your browser at...
http://127.0.0.1:10000
... and log in as root.
The software was supplied as standard with RedHat and derivative
distributions at the time, and there are commercial versions of it as
well, for managing multiple physical or virtual servers.
The authors also offer (and sell commercial licenses for) similarly
working software for domain hosting, albeit that they only officially
support CentOS.
Their software does not come in .deb packages, so unless Debian is
repackaging said software and offering it via their own repositories,
you're out of luck. Well, unless you'd be willing to build the
software from sources, of course.
Either way, DuckDuckGo is your friend.
Isn't that a Linux (or networking or Unix admin) question?
Specifically GNU/Linux, yes, but you-know-who is too lazy to...
- think for himself;
- do his own research;
- set up a proper newsreader instead of using Google Groups
(which I am filtering out in all newsgroups); and thus...
- find himself a more appropriate newsgroup whenever such a choice
would be due.
This group here is his one-stop shop for everything computer-related.
He's a help vampire, and the worst part of it all is that you are all
too willing to keep on feeding him.
For all we know, HZ could be...
- asking you guys to solve some task assigned to him at work, which
HE — not you — is being paid for; or...
- doing something illegal/unethical.
The only active regular of this newsgroup beside myself — and I'm not
even an active regular, because I'm not a professional sysadmin and I
don't hold a degree in computer science; when it comes to computer
science and information technology, I am basically a complete autodidact
— who seems to find Hongyi's perpetual vampirism sufficiently curious is Kenny. Everyone else is all too eager to show off their knowledge of the various shells, awk versions, regular expressions, and what is and is
not specified in the various UNIX and POSIX standards.
I am a moderator at the official forum for Manjaro Linux, and I am
currently said forum's leader in terms of the number of accepted
solutions. So I am definitely not afraid of offering help to
newbies — and even not-so-newbies — in the form of literal
instructions. I've also written a couple of very step-by-step tutorials
that are regularly being linked to — by myself as well as by my fellow moderators — but every once in a while you really do have to tell people
to RTFM, and especially when dealing with a help vampire.
</rant>
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With respect,
= Aragorn =
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