This manual page documents the
command. It is used to generate optimized
packetfilter rules, using a simple description file specified
by the user. Generated rules are provided in
style.
can be used to read or write rulesets from or to LDAP servers in your
network, which provides a global storing mechanism. (LDAP support is
currently broken, note that you need to include the uif.schema to your
slapd configuration in order to use it.)
provides an easy way to specify rules, without exact
knowledge of the iptables syntax. It provides groups and aliases to make your
packetfilter human readable.
Keep in mind that
is intended to assist you when designing firewalls, but will not
tell you what to filter.
Options
The options are as follows:
Specify the base to act on when using LDAP based firewall configuration.
will look in the subtree
for your rulesets.
This option specifies the configuration file to be read by
See
for detailed informations on the fileformat. It defaults to
When reading configuration data from other sources than specified with
you may want to convert this information into a textual configuration
file. This options writes the parsed config back to the file specified by
Clears all firewall rules immediatly.
If a special account is needed to bind to the LDAP database, the account
dn can be specified at this point. Note: you should use this when writing
an existing configuration to the LDAP. Reading the configuration may be
done with an anonymous bind.
Prints rules specified in the configuration to stdout. This option is
mainly used for debugging the rule simplifier.
Specifies the name of the ruleset to load from the LDAP database. Remember
to use the
option to set the base. Rulesets are stored using the following dn:
where name will be replaced by the ruleset specified.
Specifies the name of the ruleset to write to the LDAP database. This option
can be used to convert i.e. a textual configuration to a LDAP based ruleset.
Like using
you've to specify the LDAP base to use. Target is
where name will be replaced by the ruleset specified.
This option specified the LDAP server to be used.
This option is used to validate the packetfilter configuration without applying
any rules. Mainly used for debugging.
When changing your packetfiltering rules remotely, it is
usefull to have a test option. Specify this one to apply
your rules for a period of time (in seconds). After that the original
rules will be restored.
When connecting to the LDAP server, you may need to
authenticate via passwords. If you really need to
specify a password, use this option, otherwise use
and enter it interactivly.
Activate interactive password query for LDAP authentication.
is meant to leave the packetfilter rules in a defined state,
so if something went wrong during the initialisation, or
is aborted by the user, the rules that were active before
starting will be restored.
Normally you will not need to call this binary directly. Use
the init script instead, since it does the most common steps
for you.
This manual page was written by Cajus Pollmeier <pollmeier@gonicus.de> and
J?rg Platte <joerg.platte@gmx.de>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may
be used by others).
