By default, fwknopd will now exit if the interface that it is
sniffing goes down (patch contributed by Github user 'sgh7'). If this
happens, it is expected that the native process monitoring feature in
things like systemd or upstart will restart fwknopd. However, if fwknopd
is not being monitored by systemd, upstart, or anything else, this
behavior can be disabled with the EXIT_AT_INTF_DOWN variable in the
fwknopd.conf file. If disabled, fwknopd will try to recover when a
downed interface comes back up.
The RULES_CHECK_THRESHOLD variable defines the number of times firewall rule
expiration times must be checked before a "deep" check is run. This allows
fwknopd to remove rules that contain a proper '_exp_<time>' even if a third party
program added them instead of fwknopd. The default value for this variable is 20,
and this typically results in this check being run every two seconds or so. To
disable this type of checking altogether, set this variable to zero.
Having extra '/run' subdirectory hardcoded into paths used for options
'digest-file', 'pid-file', 'run-dir' is counterintuitive and can lead to
bogus directory layouts when 'localstatedir' differs from the default
value.
For example, if 'localstatedir' is set to '/run', which is a common and
recommended substitute for /var/run in many distros nowadays, then
fwknop files will be placed under /run/run/fwknop.
This changeset removes extra '/run' subdirectory from all relevant paths
by changing DEF_RUN_DIR. Default value of 'localstatedir' is changed to
'/var/run' so users who relied on the previous behaviour won't have to
bother changing anything.
This is tested and works. Gentoo have this patch applied since 2.6.0.
Bug fix to ensure that a User-Agent string can be specified when the
fwknop client uses wget via SSL to resolve the external IP address. This
closes issue #134 on github reported by Barry Allard. The fwknop now
uses the wget '-U' option to specify the User-Agent string with a
default of "Fwknop/<version>". In addition, a new command line argument
"--use-wget-user-agent" to allow the default wget User-Agent string to
apply instead.
External IP resolution via '-R' (or '--resolve-ip-http') is now done via SSL by
default. The IP resolution URL is now 'https://www.cipherdyne.org/cgi-gin/myip',
and a warning is generated in '-R' mode whenever a non-HTTPS URL is specified
(it is safer just to use the default). The fwknop client leverages 'wget' for
this operation since that is cleaner than having fwknop link against an SSL
library.
This is a significant commit to add the ability to leverage libfko fault
injections from both the fwknop client and server command lines via a
new option '--fault-injection-tag <tag name>'. This option is used by
the test suite with the tests/fault_injection.pl tests.
This commit adds a lot of test coverage support as guided by gcov +
lcov.
Also added the --no-ipt-check-support option to fwknopd (this is only
useful in practice on older Linux distros where 'iptables -C' is not
available, but it helps with test coverage).
- [server] When GnuPG is used, the default now is to require that
incoming SPA packets are signed by a key listed in GPG_REMOTE_ID for each
access.conf stanza. In other words, the usage of GPG_REQUIRE_SIG
is no longer necessary in order to authenticate SPA packets via the
GnuPG signature. Verification of GnuPG signatures can be disabled with a
new access.conf variable GPG_DISABLE_SIG, but this is NOT a
recommended configuration.
- [client+server] Add --gpg-exe command line argument and GPG_EXE
config variable to ~/.fwknoprc and the access.conf file so that the path
to GnuPG can be changed from the default /usr/bin/gpg path.
Suggested doc update to fwknop man pages to accurately describe the usage
of digits instead of bytes for SPA random data. About 53 bits of entropy
are actually used, although this is in addition to the 64-bit random salt
in for key derivation used by PBKDF1 in Rjindael CBC mode.
