I hope I didn't come off as critical or bashing in my initial post. I agree 
that PacketFence is wonderful and worth every effort to support as well as 
implement. I have had tremendous success with it.

I am finding it a bit difficult to separate out the configuration of the web 
interface and user permissions/authentication that are specific to 
administrating PacketFence from the same topics for end-user registration. We 
currently implement PacketFence v2 and we intentionally don't operate it with 
end-users registering devices. We have IS staff log in to the Web admin UI and 
register devices. We are changing this setup a bit as well as implementing the 
snort and openvas integrations. We will need to have a LDAP authentication for 
the Web-based administration that looks at a specific MemberOf association, and 
the end-user registration would not need the MemberOf association.

Regarding the rules creation in the user sources, there were no entries in the 
log at all. The rule shows up after creating it, but if I hit save, go back to 
user sources the rule is gone. I was intending to use the rules in the user 
source area for assigning privileges to users who need to access the management 
interface of PF, which may not be the right place to do that. In PF v2, I had 
to manage the user authentication and privilege system for the admin interface 
in a separate place than the registration portal. Is this still the case?

I see the config files in in /usrlocal/pf/conf, but I am nervous about editing 
them because I don't know which will get overwritten by some part of the PF UI.

Also, if I edit the /usr/local/pf/conf/iptables.conf to add some rules, what is 
the best way to commit the changes. Doing a "service iptables restart (or 
reload)" would load the rules in /etc/sysconfig/iptables. I could edit the 
centos-boxed init script to point to /usr/local/pf/conf/iptables.conf, but I 
wanted to see what the best way to do it was first.

The authentication order in the conf file did not have LDAP first. I reorder 
it, but the web interface had it listed first. And is editing the file directly 
the thing to do?

Nick
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