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From: Patrick Schaaf <bof@bof.de>
Subject: Re: Hi...
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On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 04:35:43AM +0800, ZHAO Wei wrote:
> Patrick Schaaf wrote:
> >What will it be that convinces me to
> >run a GTK application as root?
> 
> I think it's not necessarily the consequence for a GUI. The GUI 
> could output a script which you could later run as root. So you 
> don't have to trust the GTK mess as root.

Yeah, sure. I should not have mentioned that. My real points were
in the unquoted parts.

How would a GUI help me understand and work with more than trivial rulesets?

If that point is not addressed, then it is my opinion that the
development effort will be wasted (except as a learning experience.)

And I strongly think that there are better ways to learn iptables,
than to write a GUI for it.

best regards
  Patrick