On Sat, 2007-02-03 at 20:26 -0600, wrote: > Noah wrote: > > Does anybody have a recommendation for a program out there that would > > allow somebody to enter an account and password on my website, their > > IP address is cached, and the cached IP address is added temporarily > > to the firewall ruleset to be allowed. Nathaniel Hall: > I have actually considered doing almost exactly the same thing. What I > was planning on doing was writing a php page that the user would log in > with. When they do, then php would run a system command using their IP > to add a netfilter (iptables) firewall rule. There would then be a cron > job that runs daily to restart the firewall, thus the added rules would > be removed. Surely a the last thing isn't required? You can add and remove rules to the firewall, and it doesn't need restarting for them to take affect.
