Panther Server firewall shutdown?

[Axel Luttgens]

On 28/04/07 2:49, Chris Murphy wrote:

> Server is 10.3.9 and is headless, but a keyboard is available so I  
> have to do this totally blind. On 10.4 it would be easy: sudo ipfw  
> disable firewall but apparently that's an ipfw2 feature, which  
> Panther server isn't running.
>
> Since I have no feedback, I don't know what the PID is for ipfw in  
> order to kill it. I also don't know if it gets killed, if there is  
> some daemon that will relaunch ipfw anyway. And if that's the case  
> what I need to do is swap out ipfw.conf with ipfw.bak and then  
> relaunch ipfw.
>
> (Another user set the firewall to block various things, including SSL  
> so now we can't use ARD, ssh or Server Admin, so now an on-site user  
> needs to be told how to disable or reset the firewall to preview  
> settings without the aid of a display.)
>
> Suggestions?


Shouldn't this just be a matter of setting kernel variable 
net.inet.ip.fw.enable to 0?

HTH,
Axel