Bug 472784

Summary: [enh] sharing security settings/permissions based on connected network
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Krzysztof "Uosiu" Hajdamowicz <uosiumen>
Component: NetworkManagerAssignee: Dan Williams <dcbw>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Krzysztof "Uosiu" Hajdamowicz 2008-11-24 16:25:49 UTC
Description of problem:
This is a feature request to add trusted/untrusted zones in NetworkManager, to define actions to perform when user changes networks (start/stop services like stopping samba, vsftpd when joining HotSpots etc, or to specify a list of Allowed IPs in medium mode etc)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
NetworkManager-0.7.0-0.11.svn4229.fc10.x86_64

Expected Addons:
- Start/Stop/Block on firewall services when joining untrusted network
- Define a list of Allowed IPs to connect to my box when NetworkManager is in medium mode
- Paranoid mode, when we think that someone is penetrating our machine (not much possible, but there is such risk)- just /etc/init.d/iptables panic
- Possibility to assign networks to zones (uosiu!@#$ is my home network, and PWr-WiFi is hotspot)

Comment 1 Dan Williams 2008-11-24 16:47:08 UTC
NetworkManager provides information necessary for this functionality over D-Bus, but itself is only the mechanism, not the policy, for this sort of thing.  Other services are more appropriate to handle this sort of policy...  Not entirely sure what component it should be filed against, but this could be implemented today with a service that listens on D-Bus and matches the connection that just got activated against a list of policies to apply.

Probably more related to firewall config or something instead?

Comment 2 Krzysztof "Uosiu" Hajdamowicz 2008-11-24 18:47:28 UTC
In microsoft products (vista) system asks where are you when You connects to the Wi-Fi or cable network. Simmilar thing is NetworkManager in linux and I think that it is a best place to exec some scripts to immunize and unprotect our's machine.
If it can change association of wlan card with AP or set manually IP's, why couldn't it stop some services and add some rules to iptables?

Comment 3 Dan Williams 2008-11-24 18:57:36 UTC
This can certainly be done, but is outside the scope of the NetworkManager daemon itself.

NM _does_, however, provide a D-Bus interface that apps can listen to for network changes to achieve exactly what you want, _and_ a script-based event system that executes scripts in /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d when network devices go up and down.  Using those two mechanisms, what you want to do is quite possible.

Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 05:52:19 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle.
Changing version to '10'.

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Comment 5 Thomas Woerner 2009-03-16 16:48:19 UTC
Before this can be done for the firewall there has to be some place where you define, if a network interface is a home network, an external interface, a trusted interface or something else.

This has to be done in NetworkManager, because it is used to control and start/stop networks. system-config-firewall is not responsible for network configurations and therefore is not the right place to decide if a new network connection should be trusted or not.

Reassigning to NetworkManager.

Comment 6 Niels Haase 2009-04-10 20:41:24 UTC
Changing title to reflect the enhancement request.

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Comment 7 Bug Zapper 2009-11-16 09:38:16 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle.
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