From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Frank" Subject: Re: Possible to block ports by user group? Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2004 12:17:59 +0800 Sender: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org Message-ID: References: <200407041506.30874.Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200407041506.30874.Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk> Errors-To: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; format="flowed"; delsp="yes"; charset="us-ascii" To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org On Sun, 4 Jul 2004 15:06:30 +0100, Antony Stone wrote: > On Sunday 04 July 2004 2:16 pm, Michael Frank wrote: > >> Would like to block ports depending on the group in use > > I don't understand what you mean by "group" (well, I understand what yo= u mean > by it, but I don't understand where this is specified, or what it's > associated with). > >> For example: >> >> group "browser" can only access port tcp 8118 so it _must_ talk throug= h >> privoxy >> >> group "wget" can access ports tcp 21 and 80 >> >> group "trusted" can access all ports >> >> Searched and googled but could not find anything. >> >> How can this be done? > > Where / how are these groups defined? What identifies a PC as being p= art of > a specific group? Linux machine user group or user id. Regards Michael