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OPNsense Beginner to Professional

By : Julio Cesar Bueno de Camargo
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Book Image

OPNsense Beginner to Professional

5 (1)
By: Julio Cesar Bueno de Camargo

Overview of this book

OPNsense is one of the most powerful open source firewalls and routing platforms available. With OPNsense, you can now protect networks using features that were only previously available to closed source commercial firewalls. This book is a practical guide to building a comprehensive network defense strategy using OPNsense. You’ll start with the basics, understanding how to install, configure, and protect network resources using native features and additional OPNsense plugins. Next, you’ll explore real-world examples to gain in-depth knowledge of firewalls and network defense. You’ll then focus on boosting your network defense, preventing cyber threats, and improving your knowledge of firewalling using this open source security platform. By the end of this OPNsense book, you’ll be able to install, configure, and manage the OPNsense firewall by making the most of its features.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
1
Section 1: Initial Configuration
6
Section 2: Securing the Network
13
Section 3: Going beyond the Firewall

Chapter 4: System Configuration

In this chapter, we will learn more about system configuration and administration, adding users and groups, authenticating on LDAP servers, managing certificates, changing some advanced operating system settings, and how to back up all system configurations.

As we already learned, OPNsense is a complete security platform with a great framework to manage the operating system it runs on – FreeBSD. We will continue exploring WebGUI and learn how to perform some system administration tasks on it. We are going to create users, groups, and certificates, see the steps to add an external authentication server, change some system settings for testing, and perform backup and restore tests. In this chapter, we will look at the following topics:

  • Managing users and groups
  • External authentication
  • Certificates – a brief introduction
  • General settings
  • Advanced settings
  • Configuration backup