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firezone/rust/gateway
Thomas Eizinger 3e71a91667 feat(gateway): revoke unlisted authorizations upon init (#9896)
When receiving an `init` message from the portal, we will now revoke all
authorizations not listed in the `authorizations` list of the `init`
message.

We (partly) test this by introducing a new transition in our proptests
that de-authorizes a certain resource whilst the Gateway is simulated to
be partitioned. It is difficult to test that we cannot make a connection
once that has happened because we would have to simulate a malicious
client that knows about resources / connections or ignores the "remove
resource" message.

Testing this is deferred to a dedicated task. We do test that we hit the
code path of revoking the resource authorization and because the other
resources keep working, we also test that we are at least not revoking
the wrong ones.

Resolves: #9892
2025-07-17 19:04:54 +00:00
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gateway

This crate houses the Firezone gateway.

Building

You can build the gateway using: cargo build --release --bin firezone-gateway

You should then find a binary in target/release/firezone-gateway.

Running

The Firezone Gateway supports Linux only. To run the Gateway binary on your Linux host:

  1. Generate a new Gateway token from the "Gateways" section of the admin portal and save it in your secrets manager.
  2. Ensure the FIREZONE_TOKEN=<gateway_token> environment variable is set securely in your Gateway's shell environment. The Gateway requires this variable at startup.
  3. Set FIREZONE_ID to a unique string to identify this gateway in the portal, e.g. export FIREZONE_ID=$(head -c 32 /dev/urandom | sha256sum | cut -d' ' -f1). The Gateway requires this variable at startup. We recommend this to be a 64 character hex string.
  4. Now, you can start the Gateway with:
firezone-gateway

If you're running as a non-root user, you'll need the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability to open /dev/net/tun. You can add this to the gateway binary with:

sudo setcap 'cap_net_admin+eip' /path/to/firezone-gateway

Ports

The gateway requires no open ports. Connections automatically traverse NAT with STUN/TURN via the relay.