[ydl-gen] shell script

[Derick Centeno]

Question: By turning off iptables, aren't you also shutting off all YDL  
security and defenses comprising firewalls?

I'm not all sure this is a good thing unless you have other protection  
such as a hardware firewall like the Stingray firewall, where ever you  
use your powerbook while running YDL.  Since I'm raising the security  
issue, you should consider that running OS X within MOL will not allow  
OS X to protect your powerbook either.  OS X will defend itself (if  
it's firewall is up), as it would run within MOL; this means it would  
defend itself within that the functions of the Mac OS.  However, it  
will not be able to protect YDL which surrounds it.  Not allowing YDL  
to run it's iptables (which comprises it's firewalls) you are leaving  
your entire system exposed.  I'm surprised others have not raised this  
as a potential problem to consider carefully.

I'm merely expressing concern.  There is a lot of information on the  
net regarding iptables, firewalls and security.  Here's one link  
regarding one discussion you may care to consider:

http://uml-pub.ists.dartmouth.edu/wstearns/doc/adaptive- 
firewalls.v0.1.html

Best wishes ....


On Dec 7, 2005, at 2:35 PM, toehead2 at juno.com wrote:

> Hi. I am fairly new to linux, and have been trying to configure my  
> installation properly. I have a powerbook g4. I got the sound working  
> properly. I want to make a script that will perform the following  
> tasks when run :
> unmount my osx drive (must be root)
> stop the iptables service
> run mol.
> I can create a script... but how do I perform commands that you must  
> be root to accomplish?
> Thanks
> Brendan
>
>
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