3. Using firesendid

You must install the userfirewall package on the firewall and on the various servers contributing to the firewall rules.

On those server, the firesendid is used to exchange with the firewall. Here are the various command lines:

3.1 firesendid options

• --fhost host host is either the name or IP number of the firewall.
• --port port This specifies the TCP port to use to reach the firelisten service (999 by default).
• --id id This specifies the supplier ID to use. This ID correspond to an entry in /etc/userfirewall/suppliers.conf. The entry is located and the secret is used to authenticate with the firewall.

3.2 Adding information about a logged user

        /usr/lib/linuxconf/lib/firesendid options login user IP-number groups ...
        

3.3 Removing information about a logged out user

The following command remove the entry for user "user" with IP "IP-number".

        /usr/lib/linuxconf/lib/firesendid options logout user IP-number
        

3.4 Removing all information about a logged out user

The following command remove all entries for user "user".

        /usr/lib/linuxconf/lib/firesendid options logout user
        

3.5 Removing all information on the firewall

The following command remove all entries (for all users) int /var/run/userfirewall.state on the firewall

        /usr/lib/linuxconf/lib/firesendid options reset