On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 1:25 PM, John R. Dennison jrd@gerdesas.com wrote:
I always have ignored turning off the firewall; it is not hard in Gnome to alter basic firewall behaviour and allow for ports like 576 (or whatever that SMTP port is; not looking it up right now).
In the past, turning selinux to permissive was my first step in setup, followed by moving SSH's port. Now I leave it as is and learn how to use semanage.
What an absolute lovely breath of fresh air :) Someone that actually takes their job seriously and makes use of the tools provided. This is so refreshing from the normal selinux-related nonsense that pervades the world.
Sorry to burst your bubble here, but note that this is from a guy that says he hasn't changed things in years. The 'normal' selinux reaction to problems is not nonsense, just real life when you have a bunch of people trying to do new things and a tool that is designed to restrict them.