E2guardian package for pfsense - $??

jetberrocal

I tried making the same question for Dansguardian and it seems that to Apply the changes one just have to restart the service.

Since the service did not started through the GUI I look for a way to do it manually. I found other services are found in /usr/local/sbin so I look for e2g there and it was. So I went to the shell and execute ./e2guardian without parameters and it executed no showing errors so I guess it run successfully. Went to Services Status and e2g appeared Running. I then did Restart on the GUI and it seem that worked. I tried to Stop the service using the GUI but it did not stop. Both times went to the System Logs but did not show any logs for e2g service start/restart/stop.

Then I went to shell again and tried to stop service by "./e2guardian stop" but it did not worked, it gives me a notice that it is running. So I do not know how to stop it and do not know if Restart is really working.

jetberrocal

I found in a Dansguardian thread how to stop the service "./e2guardian -q" in shell. Then to start do "./e2guardian". To restart in one command I still have not found. When I execute ./e2guardian again says is already running, that message is shown on the System Logs, but stopping/starting is not shown. That is probably why the restart is not shown either.

If anyone know how to turn on in the System Logs the start/stop of e2g it will be appreciated.

jetberrocal

I confirm the GUI Restart does not work. I made a change and it didn't pickup the changes when Restarting using the GUI. I had to go to shell and manually stop then restart to apply.

phunni

Is anyone working on getting official package? Or is that what you are all doing?

jetberrocal

After installing e2guardian from freebsd ports using the manual procedure it seems to be working OK (Not perfect), but it did not work with SSL.

I run "./e2guardian -v". I did not see ssl support enabled. This is sad. :'(

The e2guardian 3.4 (current stable version) supports ssl, it should be compiled with ssl support enabled. I bet the majority of the people is expecting the e2g package with ssl support enabled.

abel408

@jetberrocal:

After installing e2guardian from freebsd ports using the manual procedure it seems to be working OK (Not perfect), but it did not work with SSL.

I run "./e2guardian -v". I did not see ssl support enabled. This is sad. :'(

The e2guardian 3.4 (current stable version) supports ssl, it should be compiled with ssl support enabled. I bet the majority of the people is expecting the e2g package with ssl support enabled.

Do you mind if you share how you got the e2guardian packaged from the freebsd ports? I've added the pkg manually like this:

pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:64/latest/All/e2guardian-3.4.0.3.txz
Fetching e2guardian-3.4.0.3.txz

But I'm not sure what to do after that… How do you even start it? If I type in "e2guardian" It says command not found.

jetberrocal

@dotdash:

@jetberrocal:

I tried to install e2g manually, but the pfsense repository does not have the application. Look for the application in pkg.freebsd.org but did not found the e2g version you are referring. Where do I get it?

pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:64/latest/All/e2guardian-3.4.0.3.txz
This just installs the FreeBSD port, not the pfSense bits…

This is it.

jetberrocal

Sorry. You have to perform the full manual install procedure. In this thread you can find a link some pages before.

abel408

@Mobile_Bob:

You can install it manually, but I wouldn't suggest it. The way it stands now it's not all that stable. I would suggest (And it's what I did), installing E2Guardian on something like ubuntu then use nat to point all traffic at the second box running E2Guardian. Then E2Guardian can point all traffic back to the PFSense box and squid will proxy and send it on. Thats the most stabe way of setting up for now. It's not the best because configs are a pain, but it's more stable.

I'm thinking this is pretty much the only option if you want to inspect content with pfsense. Is there any cons to this kind of set up? Is there any overhead in routing if you are routing traffic first to the pfsense box, then to the e2guardian box, then back to the pfsense box? I would like to keep my network as fast as possible. How would traffic monitoring look? Would the pfsense box see all bandwidth being used by the e2guardian box or would it preserve the original IP of the host?

Thanks!

jetberrocal

@jetberrocal:

Sorry. You have to perform the full manual install procedure. In this thread you can find a link some pages before.

I you have not found the link for manual install procedure:

http://knes1.github.io/blog/2015/2015-07-18-manually-installing-e2guardian-to-pfsense.html

Mobile_Bob

@abel408:

I'm thinking this is pretty much the only option if you want to inspect content with pfsense. Is there any cons to this kind of set up? Is there any overhead in routing if you are routing traffic first to the pfsense box, then to the e2guardian box, then back to the pfsense box? I would like to keep my network as fast as possible. How would traffic monitoring look? Would the pfsense box see all bandwidth being used by the e2guardian box or would it preserve the original IP of the host?

Thanks!

Sorry, have been really busy… I'm sure there are some performance hits but if you want to do a transparent proxy it's your only real option in this type of a setup. If you can setup proxy settings on each client (group policies etc), or a WPAD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Proxy_Autodiscovery_Protocol, that would push traffic at your e2guardian box first and take a little load off the firewall. I don't think it's enough to matter unless you have LOTS of traffic though... All the proxied content still carries its origin IP addresses so traffic monitoring and the firewall will still show endpoint IP addresses, but if you're interested in your Squid logs they will show all traffic coming from e2guardian.

mwebb

I discovered that e2guardian can be automatically started by adding 2 more steps to the manual install procedure ( http://knes1.github.io/blog/2015/2015-07-18-manually-installing-e2guardian-to-pfsense.html ).

1. Rename /usr/local/etc/rc.d/e2guardian to e2guardian.sh
2. Change the following text from NO to YES inside the file ": ${e2guardian_enable:=YES}"

Now the service can also be started and stopped from the services display.

For Step 8 of the manual install procedure, I suggest running the ssh commands as a bash shell script, but first bash must be installed:

pkg install bash
cp /usr/local/bin/bash /bin/

make sure that you are in the following directory
cd /root/pfsense-packages-be599ee41b2567459b1eaf55fff4ecb2ad3fa4ff/config/e2guardian/

Create new file myscript.sh (I use winscp from Windows) with #!/bin/bash at the beginning and copy and paste all the commands from Step 8, save it, make it executable and execute it
chmod +x myscript.sh
bash myscript.sh

For Step 9 there is a typo (purely cosmetic) for the menu xml. Change the 2 places of E2guradian to E2Guardian in the following lines for the menu to display correctly.

<menu>
<name>E2guradian</name>
<tooltiptext>E2guradian</tooltiptext>
Services
<configfile>e2guardian.xml</configfile>
</menu>

jetberrocal

This thread from e2guardian forum shows hot to activate SSL support for FREEBSD using the ports.

The same procedure can be used to turn other options that are turn off in the current package.

What I am missing is how to get the e2guardian to be package with the SSL support or other turned on option to be able to install it in pfsense.

jetberrocal

In the following thread you can find how to compile and package the e2guardian software for pfsense with the last FreeBSD ports version.

You can activate MITM SSL support and other options.

https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=115276.msg658813#msg658813

Some e2guardian configurations have to be made directly on conf files. This present a problem.

Every time you make configuration changes through the GUI and save, the custom/manual settings are removed.

I guess will need to modify some of the scripts in order to keep the manual settings. This will present a challenge.

jetberrocal

Maybe someone can modify the GUI scripts to include a custom text box field in the Groups section and the General section.

Such that in the custom box anyone could add the settings not implemented in the GUI.

For example the "nocheckcertsitelist" setting is not available for the Groups configuration.

I guess for the e2guardian version the GUI was intended did not had that setting available at the moment of programming it.

With the custom boxes the GUI can be extended to new versions by appending the box's text to the GUI generated configurations.

jetberrocal

@marcelloc:

I've started fixing packages to 2.3. If postfix gets merged and works fine, e2guardian(on current port version) is on the list.

Marcelloc. I have not seen you comment in this thread since December/2015.

Could you evaluate making the changes I am suggesting?

https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=87526.msg661002#msg661002

Mobile_Bob

I see that postfix was denied… My guess is he is out... I HOPE not, but... Someone else may have to take over the package. I'm a little disappointed since many people including myself donated money toward this package. I could understand if e2guardian was also denied, but as far as I know it's still just incomplete.

It's also possible that PFSense would deny this package as well. It's not as cumbersome as postfix is, but I don't know what direction they are moving since previously the postfix package was approved... :'(

pfsensation

This really would've been a big step forward for PfSense firewall, as web filtering goes. The standard SquidGuard is a nightmare. Really would've loved that HTTPS scanning :(

aGeekhere

for now just force google and bing into safe search

jetberrocal

Here is some summary to install the current e2guardian in psense:

1. Create a virtual machine with FreeBSD 10.3 or the same version of your pfsense's FreeBSD.
Make sure it has Internet access and connectivity to your pfsense machine

2. Fetch e2guardian from FreeBSD ports

pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:64/latest/All/e2guardian-3.4.0.3.txz

Fetching e2guardian-3.4.0.3.txz

3. Please have a look at https://www.freshports.org/www/e2guardian/ - by default SSL=off: by default- you need to switch it on.

portsnap fetch extract update && cd /usr/ports/www/e2guardian

make config

At this stage you need to check SSL to build e2g with SSL support or check other build options you need.

make install clean

4. Create package for personal use.

make package

But it says to run "portlint -CN" and that gives an error.
That portlint is only relevant if your developing a package yourself.
In this case your compiling an existing package and probably safe to ignore the portlint 'error' about to much files and cleanup to be done..

5. Copy the created package to your pfsense machine.
If your FreeBSD virtual machine does not have a web server then use ftp or scp to transfer the file
If your FreeBSD virtual machine has a web server that can serve the package you can repeat step #2 using the corresponding path.

6. Install package
If you copied the package using the web server method the package is already installed.
If you copied the package by other means then install package
#pkg add pkgcopiedpath

There is a procedure to install a GUI for e2guardian but I do not recommend it because it was made for a really older version of e2g.

There is another problem that has to be addressed. The mitm error page is made for apache as main web server.
pfsense uses gnix as main web server, so you have to configure e2g to use another web server or find a way to use gnix.
I use other web server so I can not help you with the gnix option.

It wont be easy to use the gnix. I think you will have to change the pfsense https web site to use other ssl port
as e2g will need the default ssl port to serve the error page. Before there where vhosts package available but now you have to do it withou the vhosts package.