allowing programs to open ports (was: 5tFTW: Fedora 21, 22, and 19, firewall discussion, and holiday break)

[Björn Persson]

Mattia Verga wrote:
>The alternative could be a "open approach" from Firewalld, where an 
>application, when it's executed, can inform firewalld that needs to
>open a port, firewalld asks the user if it should grant access to the 
>application and then opens the port... but this needs to be
>implemented in the source of every application, it can eventually be
>sponsored to become a standard in the linux world.

There is already a way for an application to inform the operating system
that it needs to open a port. It's called the Berkeley socket API, and
every program that communicates across a network already uses it. Why
don't you guys patch GlibC's implementations of bind and connect to
notify FirewallD and get it automatically enabled in every program,
instead of requiring every communicating program to call a second API in
addition to the Berkeley socket API?

Alternatively, cut out the packet filter and have GlibC ask the user
whether the call to bind or connect shall be allowed to succeed (or
automatically allow or deny the call if so configured). This has the
advantage that the program is informed that it's not allowed to
communicate.

-- 
Björn Persson
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