Shorewall users - Oct 2003 - su-wrapper doesn''t correctly exec shorewall status

Tom, I''m trying to finalize my web interface to Bering/Shorewall -
I''ve been
able to get a bug-free su-wrapper that works under almost every occasion but
when associated - of course as root - with the command

/sbin/shorewall status

it returns

iptables v1.2.8: can''t initialize iptables table `filter'':
Permission denied
(you must be root)
Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded.

- the same for ''nat'' and ''mangle'' tables.

Q. Are there any workarounds for that? Do I need a different version for
iptables?

(Bering 1.2 - Shorewall 1.4.2)


Many thanks in advance and best regards,

Andrea Galmacci

On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 10:43, Andrea Galmacci - awd
wrote:
> Tom, I''m trying to finalize my web interface to Bering/Shorewall -
I''ve been
> able to get a bug-free su-wrapper that works under almost every occasion
but
> when associated - of course as root - with the command
> 
> /sbin/shorewall status
> 
> it returns
> 
> iptables v1.2.8: can''t initialize iptables table
`filter'': Permission denied
> (you must be root)
> Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded.
> 
> - the same for ''nat'' and ''mangle''
tables.
> 
> Q. Are there any workarounds for that?
Not that I''m aware of.

-Tom
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