Re: Blocking programs with IPtables

[Leonardo Teves <leonardo.teves@alimentos-granix.com.ar>]

Thanks Eric!
I was checking info about NuFW, and it's very interesting. Will look for
more news about this project.
Anyway, could this:

http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/HOWTO//netfilter-extensions-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.18

be a solution?
Thanks again,
Leo.

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Eric Leblond wrote:
> It's a planned feature of NuFW. So it can not solved your problem but it
> will soon.
> In fact, NuFW is a authenticating firewall which extend Netfilter. It's
> basic goal has been extended with interesting features (QOS per user,
> SSO capabilities, user activities logging). One of the next planned
> feature is to have the client warn about the soft that established the
> connection and to be able to filter on this parameter. You will be able
> to say things like :
> "I want user of the group accountant to be able to connect to IMAP
> server with thunderbird if there OS is newer than WIN2K"
> 
> "I want admins to be able to connect to IMAP server with any client
> software if OS is Linux"
> 
> More informations on :
> 	http://www.nufw.org
> 
> BR,