PLEASE NOTE: This module is no longer maintained, efforts have shifted to the excellent puppet/opnsense module!

Table of Contents

• Overview
• Module Description
• Usage
  • Create a user
  • Create a group
  • OPNsense facts
• Reference
  • Feature overview
  • Additional user parameters
  • Privileges
  • Known limitations
• Development

Overview

This is a collection of providers and facts to manage OPNsense firewalls.

NOTE: This is NOT related to the OPNsense project in any way. Do NOT ask the OPNsense developers for support.

Module Description

This is intended to be a growing collection of providers and facts. In its current state it provides the following features:

• opnsense_user: a provider to manage OPNsense users
• opnsense_group: a provider to manage OPNsense groups
• opnsense_version: facts to gather OPNsense version information

Of course, it would be desirable to have a provider for cronjobs too. Contributions are welcome! :-)

Usage

Create a user

This will create a user, but does not grant any permissions.

opnsense_user { 'user001':
  ensure   => 'present',
  password => '$1$dSJImFph$GvZ7.1UbuWu.Yb8etC0re.',
  comment  => 'opnsense test user',
}

In our next example the user will have shell access (SSH) to the box and full access to the webGUI.

opnsense_user { 'user001':
  ensure         => 'present',
  password       => '$1$dSJImFph$GvZ7.1UbuWu.Yb8etC0re.',
  comment        => 'opnsense test user',
  privileges     => [ 'user-shell-access', 'page-all' ],
  authorizedkeys => [
    'ssh-rsa AAAAksdjfkjsdhfkjhsdfkjhkjhkjhkj user1@example.com',
    'ssh-rsa AAAAksdjfkjsdhfkjhsdfkjhkjhkjhkj user2@example.com',
  ],
}

Create a group

This will create a fully functional group:

opnsense_group { 'group001':
  ensure  => 'present',
  comment => 'opnsense test group',
}

In this example the group will inherit privileges to its members:

opnsense_group { 'group001':
  ensure     => 'present',
  comment    => 'opnsense test group',
  privileges => [ 'user-shell-access', 'page-all' ],
}

NOTE: The providers are NOT aware of privilege inheritance, see Limitations for details.

Deleting resources

This provider does NOT purge unmanaged resources. So you need to define a resource as 'absent' if you want it to be removed:

opnsense_user { 'user001':
  ensure   => 'absent',
  password => '$1$dSJImFph$GvZ7.1UbuWu.Yb8etC0re.',
}

opnsense_group { 'group001':
  ensure  => 'absent',
}

OPNsense facts

opnsense => true
opnsense_version => 16.7.a_52-e82bcae6e
opnsense_major => 16
opnsense_minor => 7
opnsense_patchlevel => a_52
opnsense_revision => e82bcae6e

Reference

Feature overview

opnsense.rb:

• base provider, includes common functions
• read/write config.xml, clear cache, config revisions

opnsense_user.rb:

• user management
• ssh key management
• user privilege management
• account expiry

opnsense_group.rb:

• group management
• group privilege management

Additional user parameters

To set an account expiration date:

expiry => '2014-08-01'

To remove expiry date, set it to absent:

expiry => 'absent'

Privileges

You must specify user/group privileges by using the internal OPNsense names. The provider will not even try to validate privilege names, because OPNsense silently ignores invalid privileges.

A complete list of OPNsense privileges is available from the OPNsense repository: https://github.com/opnsense/core/blob/81f1d2552e863f4c2edf7e3eb1fe066cbdcbf177/src/opnsense/mvc/app/models/OPNsense/Core/ACL/ACL.xml

Known limitations

You need to be aware of the following limitations:

• No safety net. If you delete the root user your OPNsense firewall is lost.
• User/group providers are NOT aware of group privilege inheritance.
• The indention of config.xml will be changed. Prepare for a huge diff when making changes.
• Removing all unmanaged resources (purge => true) is NOT supported.

Development

Please use the github issues functionality to report any bugs or requests for new features. Feel free to fork and submit pull requests for potential contributions.

Legal

OPNsense® is Copyright © 2014 – 2018 by Deciso B.V. All rights reserved.