Re: Rule matching with USER?

On Fri, 16 Dec 2022, Justin Pryzby wrote:
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> That limitation isn't due to shorewall but rather networking in general.
> You can't know and certainly couldn't trust the username from a remote
> system (like "identd"), and loopback has the same limitation.
>
>> Any ideas on how to handle this in shorewall, short of fiddling with the
>> application to make sure it doesn't bind to the loopback interface, please?
>
> You could drop packets directed to fw:1332
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Thanks Justin,

Mark