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mod_firewall: Support for defining extra chains in the config file
author Matthew Wild <mwild1@gmail.com>
date Thu, 17 Mar 2016 12:09:20 +0000
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2 labels:
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3 - 'Stage-Alpha'
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4 summary: 'XEP-0191: Simple Communications Blocking support'
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5 ...
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7 Introduction
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8 ============
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10 Privacy lists are a widely implemented protocol for instructing your
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11 server on blocking communications with selected users and services.
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13 However experience has shown that the power and flexibility of the
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14 rule-based system that privacy lists allow is very often much more
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15 complex than the user needs, and that in most cases a simple block on
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16 all communications to or from a list of specified JIDs would suffice.
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18 Such a protocol would also allow much simpler user interface design than
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19 the current attempts at full privacy list interfaces.
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21 Details
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22 =======
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24 Simple Communications Blocking was developed to solve the above issues,
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25 and allows the client to manage a simple list of blocked JIDs. This
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26 plugin implements support for that protocol in Prosody, however the
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27 actual blocking is still managed by mod\_privacy, so it is **required**
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28 for that plugin to be loaded (this may change in future).
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30 An XEP-0191 implementation without dependency on mod\_privacy is
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31 available in Prosody 0.10 as
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32 [mod\_blocklist](https://prosody.im/doc/modules/mod_blocklist).
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34 Configuration
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35 =============
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37 Simply ensure that mod\_privacy (or mod\_privacy\_lists in 0.10+) and
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38 mod\_blocking are loaded in your modules\_enabled list:
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40 modules_enabled = {
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41 -- ...
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42 "privacy", -- or privacy_lists in Prosody 0.10+
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43 "blocking",
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44 -- ...
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46 Compatibility
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47 =============
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50 0.10 Works but will conflict with mod\_blocklist
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51 0.9 Works
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52 0.8 Works
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53 0.7 Works
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54 0.6 Doesn't work
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