NAME
nuauth - NUFW authentication server
SYNOPSIS
nuauth [ -h ] [ -V ] [ -v[v...] ] [ -l (local, for clients) port ] [ -C
(local, for clients) address ] [ -L (local, for nufw) address ] [ -p
(local, for nufw) port ] [ -t timeout ] [ -D ]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents the nuauth command.
Nuauth is the authentication server of the NUFW package. Whenever a
client sends a packet(1) to start a connection through the gateway, the
client program (nutcpc), installed on the client’s station, sends an
authentication packet(2) to nuauth. The gateway’s firewall queues the
packet(1) and sends informations about it directly to the nuauth
server. Nuauth’s job is to analyse both packets(1) and (2), and check
user owns the right to initialize the connection (s)he has tried to. If
Nuauth finds so, Nuauth sends authorization to Nufw to accept the
packet(1) through, and the connection gets initialized. If not, the
connection is Dropped.
Nuauth can use a backend LDAP server for user and groups definitions,
as well as Access Lists associated with those groups. Interface to
Users/Groups database can also be performed through PAM/NSS. An option
is also to store the user database in DBM files. It should be noted
that dynamic modifications of the users base can currently only be
performed if an LDAP database is used.
Original packaging and informations and help can be found from
http://www.nufw.org/
OPTIONS
-h Issues usage details and exits.
-V Issues version and exits.
-v Increases verbosity level. Multiple switches are accepted and
each of them increases the verbosity level by one. Default
verbosity level is 2, max is 10.
-l port
Specifies TCP port to listen on for clients. Default value :
4129
-L address
Address to listen on for NuFW packets. Default : 127.0.0.1
-C address
Address to listen on for clients packets. Default : 0.0.0.0
-d address
Network address of the nufw (gateway) servers. Only NuFW servers
at those addresses will be allowed to talk to nuauth.
-p port
This option is DEPRECATED and was in use only in v1 of the
protocol, which was proof of concept, non-encrypted.
Specifies UDP port to send data to when addressing the nufw
(gateway) server. Nufw server must be setup to listen on that
port. Default value : 4128
-t seconds
Specifies timeout to forget packets not identified, and
identification packets matching nothing. Default value : 15 s.
-D Run as a daemon. If started as a daemon, nuauth logs message to
syslog. If you don’t specify this option, messages go to the
console nuauth is running on, both on STDOUT and STDERR. Unless
you are debugging something, you should run nuauth with this
option.
SIGNALS
The nuauth daemon is designed to deal with several signals : HUP, USR1,
USR2, and POLL.
HUP Reload configuration. The nuauth daemon reloads its
configuration when receiving this signal. Since 2.2.19, it also
refreshes the CRL file content.
USR1 Increases verbosity. The daemon then acts as if it had been
launched with one supplementary ’-v’.A line is also added to the
system log to mention the signal event.
USR2 Decreases verbosity. The daemon then acts as if it had been
launched with one less ’-v’. A line is also added to the system
log to mention the signal event.
POLL Logs an "audit" line, mentioning how many network datagrams were
received and sent since daemon startup.
SEE ALSO
nufw(8)
AUTHOR
Nuauth was designed and coded by Eric Leblond, aka Regit
(<eric@regit.org>) , and Vincent Deffontaines, aka gryzor
(<vincent@gryzor.com>). Original idea in 2001, while working on NSM
Ldap support.
This manual page was written by Vincent Deffontaines
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 2 as
published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections,
no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts.
10 novembre 2008