[Webmin-maintainers] Bug#321381: webmin-firewall: firewall does not provide option to start on boot

[Andrew Zahra]

Package: webmin-firewall
Severity: important

I installed to systems with Sarge and then installed webmin and
webmin-firewall. On both systems, the webmin-firewall module doesn't
provide the option to "Activate at boot". I only discovered this by
accident when running a security check on a system that had been
rebooted - which I found was wide open.

I uninstalled the debian modules and then hand installed webmin 1.220
from the webmin site and it all worked fine.

This seems like a serious security issue as people can easily configure
their firewall without realising it will not persist.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-386
Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages webmin-firewall depends on:
ii  iptables                      1.2.11-10  Linux kernel 2.4+ iptables adminis
ii  perl                          5.8.4-8    Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  webmin                        1.180-3    web-based administration toolkit