[cobalt-users] QUBE 2 Security issue with public page.....

[Hagen Schempf <hagen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Folks,

        

I am new
to this so please excuse my potentially ignorant question:

        

Setting:
We have a QUBE 2 set up as a firewall and hooked up over the secondary
interface through DSL (via RHTYMS.NET) to the world using a fixed IP
address and an ISP-provided mask. The primary interface runs the LAN and
all th ePCs and printers. The public WWW-page security issue I have has
led me to the following desirable settings:

        

        

- I do NOT
want to have the public page (i.e.
www.hostname.com/cobalt)
to be accessible by anybody from the outside (WAN that is)- not even with
password access - I know I can deny access by requiring people to give
their username and password but I do not even want that to be possible. I
have been told that once I replace the default public page with my own,
my new page will be the page people will see once they access
www.hostname.com
- I just want to completely remove outside WAN-access to the .../cobalt public page for outsiders; that includes removal of outside access even by the admin - all admin-related activities should be done and be allowed to proceed on the LAN (i.e. from inside the company).

- I do want to retain internal LAN-access for the registered users to the .../cobalt page (i.e. company-internal access only!)

- I do not want to allow any registered users on the QUBE 2 to be able to view anything other than their own home/user-directory on the QUBE. The reasoning is that individual users should be allowed to place/backup personal/company-stuff onto the disk in the QUBE (that is why I bought a multi-gig drive), without any body else (except for the admin) to be able to get access to their own user directory. Is that at all possible?!

        

Do I have to go to COBALT's tech-support and pay to have this mod made or is there an easy work-around anyone knows about? I am not a LINUX guru, so ignorance is against me here. Thanks for any helpful pointers!

HAGEN