pfSense Plus Software Version 23.09 BETA Now Available for Testing

[Gertjan]

@Darkk said in pfSense Plus Software Version 23.09 BETA Now Available for Testing:

they don't see anything sensitive about my firewall.

They won't. Neither do you.
That is, they could see your pfSense WAN IPv4, but they already knew that.
No passwords or other info like that is transmitted.
I never saw secret stuff in these notification mails.
Notification mails are what they are : they tell you to call home as there is an 'event'.
Up to you to decide to check it out (using for example VPN).

@Darkk said in pfSense Plus Software Version 23.09 BETA Now Available for Testing:

I re-entered the e-mail password

pfSense doesn't / shouldn't use the gmail password.
I had to generate a 'app password', a password created for an app or device. For every device that uses your gmail account, you have to create an unique password.
The advantage is : you can revoke them in a central place, and no need to put your email credentials in every device, as that would be a big security issue.

[Bob.Dig]

@Darkk How about running your own, local email-server.

[jrey]

@Bob-Dig said in pfSense Plus Software Version 23.09 BETA Now Available for Testing:

local email-server.

Was just typing the same thing

Notifications directly from the Netgate are actually rare here, but from the syslog server that that Netgate logs to - that's a whole different kettle of fish.

Still, in some areas the logging to Netgate->syslog needs work. Also depends on what packages are being used.

[NollipfSense]

So, I upgraded to 23.0 9RC...first thing I noticed is that the Netmap harmless but ugly messages are gone.

[SteveITS]

@GeorgeCZ58 Re the FreeRadius bug, you can manually edit the config file to recover: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/14596

Since it happens on upgrade (which uninstalls/reinstalls) it’s likely to hit anyone who hasn’t saved the default settings page.

[Darkk]

Now getting this error. I dismissed it the first time thinking it's just a fluke. Now it happened again:

00:00:00 PHP ERROR: Type: 1, File: /usr/local/bin/mail_reports_generate.php, Line: 61, Message: Uncaught ValueError: exec(): Argument #1 ($command) cannot be empty in /usr/local/bin/mail_reports_generate.php:61
Stack trace:
#0 /usr/local/bin/mail_reports_generate.php(61): exec('', '')
#1 {main}
thrown

[Darkk]

Figured out the e-mail issue. Apparently I had the command as being blank. Soon as I removed that it's working ok now.

[stephenw10]

Hmm, that feels like there should some input validation to prevent that. You should probably open a bug for it.

[DefenderLLC]

Boom!

[Darkk]

@DefenderLLC Oct 31st? Halloween edition?

[DefenderLLC]

@Darkk That's when the RC came out and now it's official.

[Darkk]

@DefenderLLC said in pfSense Plus Software Version 23.09 BETA Now Available for Testing:

@Darkk That's when the RC came out and now it's official.

Ya, I upgraded my instance this morning. No issues.

[stephenw10]

@Darkk said in pfSense Plus Software Version 23.09 BETA Now Available for Testing:

@DefenderLLC Oct 31st? Halloween edition?

Many references were posted internally.

[amanda87]

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