Managing the Coyote Linux Floppy Firewall
With the firewall up and running, you almost surely will want to manage it further. There are a
couple of ways to access your running firewall so that you can change its configuration with a Web
interface or a remote login. Before you can use the remote login, however, you must change the
system (root user) password, and that can be done only through the Web interface.
Using a Web Interface
The Coyote Linux Web Administrator can be run from any browser on your LAN to view and
change your firewall configuration. It is available from that machine on port 8180. To access the
site you configured in the preceding example, type the following in the location box on your
browser: http://192.168.0.1:8180.
The first thing you want to do is click the System Password button in the main menu and add a
password for the root user. Figure 18-3 shows the Internet configuration that was set up to dial
out to the Internet in the previous section.
Using a Remote Login
The firewall floppy was configured to run the sshd daemon, enabling you to log in over your LAN
(using the ssh command) to access your Coyote Linux firewall from the shell. In the example, you
can type:
# ssh -l root 192.168.0.1
root@192.168.0.1??™s password: *******
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FIGURE 18-3
Administer Coyote Linux from your Web browser.
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