Notes on disabling shorewall firewall

[ca-on-adam]

Hi,

i have a default Mageia 32-bit system, which I installed checking off every box except "Individual package selection". It has a lot of services running!

So I wanted to access the machine through ssh, and the firewall is blocking port 22. Google turned up This Thread on disabling the firewall.

For anyone trying to the same thing, I noted that after disabling the shorewall service, the default policy for INPUT and FORWARD was still DROP.

My first instinct was to try disabling other stuff, but before making my own trial-and-error changes, I restarted my machine to see if anything would change. It did! Now the output from "iptables -L" shows that the default policy has been changed to ACCEPT. This is very good, because I don't want to go around stopping services randomly, since I don't know what they all do.