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    Authenticating Users with Google Cloud Identity

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      leonida368 @stephenw10
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      hi @stephenw10 and thanks for the reply

      Since I have worked with other firewalls up to now, I don't know PFsense very well yet. Could you tell me how to check the state table regarding Stunnel and do a pcap on the WAN filtered by port 636?

      I would also kindly like to know if I did the right thing with regards to uploading the certificate and related key downloaded from the LDAP app created in the Google Workspace admin console:
      I opened the certificate's .crt file with notepad and copied all the text (including -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- and -----END CERTIFICATE-----) and pasted it into the Certificate text box given leaving as Certificate Type: X.509 (PEM).
      Same thing for the key file that I pasted into the Private key data text box.
      I did well?

      A thousand thanks

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        leonida368 @leonida368
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        maybe I found it: Stunnel is not started!
        I was suspicious of the fact that in Stunnel there is a "Start service" arrow and then in Status / Services it says Stopped. How come? How can I solve it? Thank you

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        • stephenw10S
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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          Ok, that would do it!

          Try to start it with the button there. Then check the system logs if it fails to start.

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            leonida368 @stephenw10
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            Hi, ok I'll check, in the meantime if you kindly answer me to a previous question I asked, i.e. if I did the right thing regarding the uploading of the certificate and the related key downloaded from the LDAP app created in the Google Workspace administration console:
            I opened the certificate .crt file with notepad and copied all the text (including -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- and -----END CERTIFICATE-----) and pasted into the Certificate text box initially given as Certificate Type: X.509 (PEM).
            Same thing for the key file I pasted into the Private Key Data text box.
            Thank you

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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              That's the Google CA cert they are using for your domain?

              pfSense needs that to trust the LDAP server cert but it shouldn't need the key. You'd only need that to create certs from the CA. So only if you need to create a client cert perhaps.

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                leonida368 @stephenw10
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                I understand, but is the procedure with which I pasted the certificate file correct?

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                • stephenw10S
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                  Yes, that's fine for importing a cert.

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                    leonida368 @stephenw10
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                    Hi @stephenw10 , Where can I see the cause of Stunnel not starting?

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                    • stephenw10S
                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                      Well as I suggested I would try to start the service then check the logs.

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                        leonida368 @stephenw10
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                        @stephenw10 said in Authenticating Users with Google Cloud Identity:

                        Well as I suggested I would try to start the service then check the logs.

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                        I find Stunnel only in System/General and it only affects the installation phase. Then I don't see it anywhere else

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                        • stephenw10S
                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                          How do you have it configured? What happens when you try to start it?

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                            leonida368 @stephenw10
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                              leonida368 @leonida368
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                              both in Services/Stunnel and in Status/Services if I click on the arrow to start it after a while it returns again

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                                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                                @leonida368 said in Authenticating Users with Google Cloud Identity:

                                https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/recipes/auth-google-gsuite.html

                                Ok so reviewing that it is a cert and not a CA cert. So did you import it with the key as described there?

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                                  leonida368 @stephenw10
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                                  yes

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                                  • stephenw10S
                                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                                    Try setting logging to DEBUG, see if that generates something when it tries to start.

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                                      leonida368 @stephenw10
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                                      unfortunately nothing

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                                      • stephenw10S
                                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                                        Does it start correctly if you don't set a cert at all?

                                        Otherwise check if you have something else listening on port 1636 already for some reason.

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                                          leonida368 @stephenw10
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                                          hi, the Certificate field cannot remain empty

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                                            leonida368 @leonida368
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                                            Up until last year I used Packetfence to do this. Even if it is a different product (it is a nac not a firewall) for better or worse the authentication with Google Workspace worked, but this involved the simultaneous presence of Packetfence for authentication and PFSense as a firewall and furthermore Packetfence registers a device with the user who authenticates and then the captive portal no longer appears on that device. Instead I would have liked to do everything with PFsense but I find it hard....

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