firestarter start

neilcpp · 11-19-2005, 04:07 PM

i downlowded the tarball of firestarter firewall and built it from source under my root account. If i type 'firestarter' at the root command line - when I log into the xwindows as root as well - then the program starts.

but if i log in as a ordinary user - i get command not found when i type firestarter. I know this is a permissions issue. But my question is what file do i need to change so that i can run firestarter firewall as a ordinary user?

Okie · 11-19-2005, 04:24 PM

firestarter is just a frontend for IPTables and that is a system tool of which only system administrators (root) should have access to so it is not advised to let regular users have acess to it...

neilcpp · 11-20-2005, 07:34 AM

no - do you have to log into x windows as root and start you firewall as root every time?

what i am saying is that i know i have to start the program as root, but i CANNOT start it under a user account at the command prompt as root.

dive · 11-20-2005, 08:14 AM

Put the command to start it in a start up file - maybe rc.local which you will find in /etc/rc.d/

MMYoung · 11-20-2005, 09:09 AM

I build a Slackware package of Firestarter and here is the rc.firewall script that I use:

Code:

#!/bin/bash
#rc.firewall start/stop/restart the Firestarter firewall service
#
firewall_start () {
if [ -x /etc/firestarter/firestarter.sh ]; then
   echo "Starting firewall: /etc/firestarter/firestarter.sh"
   /etc/firestarter/firestarter.sh start
fi
}

firewall_stop () {
  /etc/firestarter/firestarter.sh stop
}

firewall_restart () {
  /etc/firestarter/firestarter.sh stop
  /etc/firestarter/firestarter.sh start
}

case "$1" in
'start')
  firewall_start
  ;;
'stop')
  firewall_stop
  ;;
'restart')
  firewall_restart
  ;;
*)
 echo "usage $0 start|stop|restart"
esac

Create a file named rc.firewall in /etc/rc.d, add the above to it and it will automatically start each time you boot your PC as it is called by rc.inet2 so there is no need to put it in rc.local. Also you MUST be root to make any changes to the firewall so you won't be able to start Firestarter as a normal user. My workaround is to use libgnomesu (which I also package for Slackware) and add gnomesu firestarter to the Exec= line of firestarter.desktop. This way you will be asked for the root password when clicking on the Firestarter menu entry in Applications --> System Tools.

Later,
MMYoung