Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> Is there any interest in having shorewall able to configure
> iptables/netfilter on a remote node?  i.e. one installs shorewall on
> node foo, and executes the shorewall command(s) on node foo but has it
> install the actual rules on node bar?  Indeed, a single shorewall
> installation could install rules/manage a network of nodes.
> 
> Obviously the easiest path to such a goal is to simply allow some form
> of remote execution to the node "bar".  Could be rsh ~shudder~ or more
> appropriately, ssh, complete with keys and .ssh/authorized_keys entries
> that limits the scope of what the node "foo" is allowed to execute on
> "bar".
> 
> Thots?  Would I be wasting my time hacking up shorewall to do this or
> would such patches be considered for inclusion?

I've been thinking of implementing that but as a wrapper.  My ideas was 
to manage separate configurations in a subversion repository and do the 
editing and validation on a central station.  The "compiled" rules could 
them be uploaded using ssh to the appropriate firewall.  With he recent 
purchase of the company I put that on hold since the new Masters have 
their own firewalls and usually look down their noses at OSS.

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Stephen Carville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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