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Firestarter for underpriviliged users

Asked by Breeze

I am a beginner in Ubuntu so I hope you would be patient with my questions.

I installed 8.04 after XP. I created underprivileged users all belonging to group I created "guest". I read somewhere that I do not really need Firestarter but I still installed it anyways.

How do I make every user in the group "guest" starts Firestarter after logon? I tried changing thru the terminal /etc/sudoers but it says it can only be changed by the root and editor visudo.

Or should I just uninstall Firestarter? If I uninstall Firestarter, do I still have a built-in firewall intact.

Thank you for all your help.

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Ian Ace (iaculallad) said : 		#1

By default, firewall rules are active (on all accounts created) even when Firestarter application is not. Take note that Firestarter is not the firewall itself but just a GUI-utility to change the settings of the iptable.

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