Re: Betatest Guardian 2.0

[Stefan Schantl <stefan.schantl@ipfire.org>]

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> Hello Daniel,
> 
> thanks for testing and your feedback.
> > 
> > Hi
> > At first everything seems to wok as designed.
> > 
> > First thing I found...
> > If  I add an IP to the ignorelist it also works as designed. But if
> > I 
> > remove it the Webif didn't show it any more but the IP seems to be
> > still 
> > ignored until I restart the Guardian.
> > 
> Seems to be a bug, I'll have a look on the code.

Should be fixed in the latest version 003.
> 
> > 
> > Next thing.
> > The owncloud parser don't work. Please tell me what you need.
> Nothing at all, I will have to do a deeper look into the non working
> code. I'll post the updated parser to the mailinglist so the new one
> can be tested.
> 

Please install the latest test version 003. This release should contain
a fixed parser for owncloud. (untested because I don't use owncloud)
> > 
> > 
> > I wish me a restart button on the webif.
> Why do you think to need such a button. Guardian is designed to
> reload
> and communicate with the WUI over a Socket connection. So there
> should
> not be any need to do a restart of guardian, except an update of the
> daemon has been installed.
> > 
> > 
> > -
> > Daniel
> Best regards,
> 
> -Stefan
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Am 18.07.2016 um 16:01 schrieb Stefan Schantl:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Hello mailing list followers,
> > > 
> > > this is the official release announcement for the first beta
> > > release of
> > > the new Guardian 2.0 approach.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > - What are the differences to the current version of guardian
> > > (legacy)
> > > and the first approach of guardian 2.0?
> > > 
> > > The most important difference is, that the new version of
> > > Guardian
> > > 2.0
> > > completely has been re-written from scratch and released under
> > > the
> > > terms of the GPLv3. The legacy version of guardian is not
> > > maintained
> > > anymore by it's developer and the software has been released
> > > without
> > > any license details at all.
> > > 
> > > Guardian 2.0 has a very modular code base and has been designed
> > > as
> > > a
> > > multi-threaded application. This allows a parallel parsing of all
> > > monitored logfiles and faster actions, if one of the used modules
> > > detects an attack.
> > > 
> > > A very important difference to the legacy version is the support
> > > of
> > > configuring and managing the entire service through the IPFire
> > > webinterface. The entire configuration, managing of current
> > > blocked
> > > hosts, unblocking them or editing the ignored hosts list now can
> > > be
> > > done in a graphical way.
> > > 
> > > The legacy version of guardian only supported parsing snort
> > > alerts.
> > > HTTPD and SSH support has been patched by the IPFire development
> > > team
> > > some time ago. Guardian 2.0 supports all of them out of the box
> > > and
> > > includes a filter to detect owncloud login brute-force attempts.
> > > As
> > > a
> > > benefit of the new modular design, additional filters easily can
> > > be
> > > added.
> > > 
> > > Guardian 2.0 is able to reload it's configuration, reloading
> > > the ignore list during runtime and handle, if the logfiles will
> > > get
> > > rotated by logrotate. This actions can be called by using the
> > > webinterface or from the command line interface by using
> > > "guardianctrl".
> > > 
> > > These are just a handful of the changes and benefits which comes
> > > with
> > > Guardian 2.0, a complete list would be to long for this mailing
> > > list.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > - How to join testing?
> > > 
> > > To get part of the testing team, simple navigate to http://people
> > > .i
> > > pfir
> > > e.org/~stevee/guardian-2.0/ and download the latest tarball
> > > (currently
> > > 002). Please take care to download the correct one, based on your
> > > used
> > > architecture. The i585 packages are for 32Bit installations of
> > > IPFire,
> > > the x86_64 packages only can be used on 64Bit installations.
> > > 
> > > Put the downloaded file on your IPFire test system and extract
> > > the
> > > package by using "tar -xvf guardian-2.0-002.<arch>.tar.gz -C /".
> > > 
> > > The final installation step would be to regenerate the language
> > > cache
> > > by executing "update-lang-cache" on the console.
> > > 
> > >  From now you can find a new menu item called "Guardian" in your
> > > "Service" menu after you have logged-in into your IPFire's
> > > webinterface.
> > > 
> > > Documentation can be found on the IPFire wiki: http://wiki.ipfire
> > > .o
> > > rg/e
> > > n/addons/guardian/start#the_guardian_20_addon
> > > 
> > > 
> > > - Where to post bugs reports or provide feedback?
> > > 
> > > If you find any bugs, please report them as usual on the IPFire
> > > bugtracker, which can be found at https://bugzilla.ipfire.org.
> > > 
> > > To provide feedback or to join a discussion, please send your
> > > mails
> > > to
> > > "development(a)lists.ipfire.org" (Please register first at http://l
> > > is
> > > ts.i
> > > pfire.org if not yet done).
> > > 
> > > The source code can be found at http://git.ipfire.org/?p=people/s
> > > te
> > > vee/
> > > guardian.git;a=summary
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Happy testing,
> > > 
> > > -Stefan

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