Firestarter burns my user account
 

Hello,

I'm trying to get firestarter to load at the startup of my user account so I:

1) Made an entry in /etc/sudoers via visudo (sudoers listed below)

2) Put an entry in system>preferences>sessions: /usr/sbin/firestarter

I get an error at gnome startup saying I need root permission to start the program. I realize this and am not sure what I'm doing wrong. I can start the program fine through the system menu and then adding my password, so the app. is working properly.

Help appreciated,

ab


/etc/sudoers: (userzero is the name of my user account)

# /etc/sudoers
#
# This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
#
# See the man page for details on how to write a sudoers file.
# Host alias specification

# User alias specification

# Cmnd alias specification

# Defaults

Defaults !lecture,tty_tickets,!fqdn

# User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
userzero ALL= NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/firestarter
# Members of the admin group may gain root privileges
%admin ALL=(ALL) ALL

You don't need to start Firestarter when you login.

Firestarter places a script in /etc/init.d called "firestarter" that sets the IPtables rules when you boot your system.
Firestarter is just a frontend to IPtables, so you don't actually need to have the GUI running for the firewall to protect you.

Run "sudo iptables -L" to see the current list of IPtables rules.

I hope this helps
--Ian

Palm smacked to forehead! Uh... yeah. I knew that ;)

Thanks for the reminder,

ab