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Date:      Fri, 24 Sep 1999 13:28:37 +0200
From:      Tim Priebe <tim@iafrica.com.na>
To:        The Mad Scientist <madscientist@thegrid.net>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Secure gateway to intranet
Message-ID:  <99092413411000.21169@310.priebe.alt.na>
References:  <4.1.19990923205643.0095ce70@mail.thegrid.net>

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On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, The Mad Scientist wrote:
> All,
> 	I am looking for a secure way to log into a machine on an intranet.
> Here's what I have in mind.
> 	A user ssh-es to a machine on the boarder network.  Her shell is a
> script/program that asks for a name of an internal machine, then ssh-es to
> that machine after an authentication. This way, I could only open the
> border and internal routers up to that machine and a proxy server and I
> could have a log of who goes where.  I'd also like to be able to set up
> some kind of acl in the proggie/script that dictates which users can go to
> which machines.  For authentication, a username/pass will do for now, but
> later I'd like to expand it to some kind of one time card.  Some kind of
> transparent secure file transfer would also be great.
> 	Now, here's what I am interested in knowing.  What would be a simple and
> secure way to implement this.  (I was thinking of perl)  What sort of
> things should I be wary of when setting this up?  Is this even advisable?  ^_^
> Thanks in advance,
> -Dean

My solution to a similar problem is to use ipfw rules, together with ssh. I
have a small number of fixed ip addresses on the outside, that are allowed to
connect to a small number of fixed addresses on the inside. Logging can be done
with the tcp setup packets.

Tim.


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