Changing security/firewall settings without GUI

[Jann Röder]

 From my experience the settings are applied, however they're not 
reloaded into the GUI if you reopen the config tool. The settings are 
saved to the IPtables config file: /etc/sysconfig/iptables

Jann

Robert Davis wrote:
> Hi YDL neighbors,
> 
> I know that Yellowdog 3.0 has a GUI tool to allow
> configuration of the firewall / security settings
> (It's called Security Level and it's under the System
> Settings menu).  However, on my installation, saving
> changes to this screen has no effect.  On the GUI
> Security Level screen I choose "no firewall".  I save
> the setup, exit the Security Level screen, but when I
> re-open it, the setting reappears as "HIGH".  (For
> what it's worth, on my install, I also chose "no
> firewall", and that did not take.) 
> 
> I would like to go around the GUI and update the
> relevant files directly.  Does anyone know what files
> need to be updated to change this setting?  I'm simply
> trying to open up my machine to my local network and
> it's refusing all connections.  Any help would be
> greatly appreciated.  Thanks,
> 
> Robert