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

                            the Certificate field cannot remain empty

                            It throws an error when you try?

                            You have to have a client cert for Google Auth to accept it but Stunnel should start OK without a cert defined there. If it does then we know the problem is with the certificate.

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                            • stephenw10S
                              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                              Like:
                              Screenshot from 2024-05-21 12-57-33.png

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                                leonida368 @stephenw10
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                                it's a box where you have to choose something but if I choose Default I have a view like yours i.e. the Certificate field is empty. However, even in this way the service does not start

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                                • stephenw10S
                                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                                  Ok so not a certificate issue.

                                  Do you have other STunnel entries that might have misconfig?

                                  Do you have some other service already listening on port 1636?

                                  What happens if you just try to run the command at the CLI:

                                  [24.03-RELEASE][admin@4200.stevew.lan]/root: stunnel
                                  [ ] Initializing inetd mode configuration
                                  [ ] Clients allowed=54725
                                  [.] stunnel 5.71 on amd64-portbld-freebsd15.0 platform
                                  [.] Compiled/running with OpenSSL 3.0.13 24 Oct 2023
                                  [.] Threading:PTHREAD Sockets:POLL,IPv6 TLS:ENGINE,OCSP,PSK,SNI
                                  [ ] errno: (* __error())
                                  [ ] Initializing inetd mode configuration
                                  [.] Reading configuration from file /usr/local/etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf
                                  [.] UTF-8 byte order mark not detected
                                  [ ] Compression disabled
                                  [ ] No PRNG seeding was required
                                  [ ] Initializing service [Google Auth Test]
                                  [ ] Initializing context [Google Auth Test]
                                  [ ] stunnel default security level set: 2
                                  [ ] Ciphers: HIGH:!aNULL:!SSLv2:!DH:!kDHEPSK
                                  [ ] TLSv1.3 ciphersuites: TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256
                                  [ ] TLS options: 0x2100000 (+0x0, -0x0)
                                  [ ] Session resumption enabled
                                  [ ] Loading certificate from file: /usr/local/etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem
                                  [ ] Certificate loaded from file: /usr/local/etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem
                                  [ ] Loading private key from file: /usr/local/etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem
                                  [ ] Private key loaded from file: /usr/local/etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem
                                  [ ] Private key check succeeded
                                  [ ] No trusted certificates found
                                  [:] Service [Google Auth Test] needs authentication to prevent MITM attacks
                                  [ ] OCSP: Client OCSP stapling enabled
                                  [ ] DH initialization skipped: client section
                                  [ ] ECDH initialization
                                  [ ] ECDH initialized with curves X25519:P-256:X448:P-521:P-384
                                  [.] Configuration successful
                                  [ ] Deallocating deployed section defaults
                                  [ ] Cleaning up context [stunnel]
                                  [ ] Binding service [Google Auth Test]
                                  [ ] Listening file descriptor created (FD=9)
                                  [ ] Setting accept socket options (FD=9)
                                  [ ] Option SO_REUSEADDR set on accept socket
                                  [.] Binding service [Google Auth Test] to 127.0.0.1:1636: Address already in use (48)
                                  [!] Binding service [Google Auth Test] failed
                                  [ ] Unbinding service [Google Auth Test]
                                  [ ] Service [Google Auth Test] closed
                                  [ ] Deallocating deployed section defaults
                                  [ ] Cleaning up context [stunnel]
                                  [ ] Deallocating section [Google Auth Test]
                                  [ ] Cleaning up context [Google Auth Test]
                                  [ ] Initializing inetd mode configuration
                                  

                                  There you see it fails to start for me because it's already running.

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                                    leonida368 @stephenw10
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                                    Hi @stephenw10
                                    I changed the Listen on Port field from 1636 to 1696 but nothing changed. I ran the stunnel command from the shell and the following error came out:
                                    f2c508b8-8e0d-4345-ba66-1d7a1ef5c713-image.png

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                                      Gertjan @leonida368
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                                      @leonida368

                                      You probably broke the golden rule.
                                      You've installed package(s) that depend on other packages like OpenSSL.
                                      When installing "stunnel", the latest and greatest was put in place. But .... your pfSense 'core' (kernel, system libraries) in not recent or up to date : now you've entered "DDL" or library conflict hell.

                                      The golden rules says : before installing and or updating packages, first upgrade pfSense.
                                      The current version is 2.7.2.

                                      No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
                                      Edit : and where are the logs ??

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                                        leonida368 @Gertjan
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                                        Hi @Gertjan
                                        well I'm sure you're right but keep in mind that when I tried to install stunnel from 2.60 the system told me that it was necessary to upgrade Pfsense and in fact I updated it to 2.70 and in fact after doing this upgrade of PfSense I was It is possible to install Stunnel, but with all the problems you see.
                                        You won't believe it, but before reading your post I went to System / Update again and found 2.7.2 and I said to myself: "But why not try?".

                                        Well I did that upgrade and...... STunnel WORKS!!!

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                                        • GertjanG
                                          Gertjan @leonida368
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                                          @leonida368

                                          Great 👍
                                          Now you know what 'golden' is in that rule.

                                          No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
                                          Edit : and where are the logs ??

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                                            leonida368 @Gertjan
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                                            @Gertjan sure sure I understood hahaha. Thanks and thanks also to
                                            @stephenw10. Now I move forward with the implementation of the captive portal. Tomorrow I will be at the customer's site so... let's hope for the best!
                                            If I have other problems, can I bother you again? Thank you

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