traffic accounting per username with ipfw in 5.4 ? (more)

[Philip Lykke Carlsen]

Monday 24 October 2005 23:54 skrev user:
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Andrew P. wrote:
> > On 10/25/05, user <user at dhp.com> wrote:
> > > I remember that ipfw had been augmented some time ago to do traffic
> > > counting, etc., based on usernames ... but I see no mention of that in
> > > the ipfw man page on my 5.4-RELEASE system.
> > >
> > > Is this something that only exists in IPFW2 ?  Does ipfw2 even exist
> > > anymore ?
> > >
> > > Can someone clarify for me what is going on with regard to what used to
> > > be called IPFW2, FreeBSD 5.x, and per-user traffic counting ?
> > >
> > > thanks.
> >
> > ipfw2 replaced ipfw in 5.x
> >
> > Read the manpage more carefully, please. Search
> > for "uid" option.
>
> Thanks - I was searching for username and getting nowhere.  Also, thank
> you for the clarification regarding ipfw2/ipfw and their current state.
>
> I notice that the traffic accounting per uid only applies to traffic
> initiated by that user, and initiated from the local machine.  If I scp a
> file away from the machine (as user X) the traffic does not get
> incremented, and if I scp a file to the local machine (as user X) it also
> does not get incremented - even though those are non-anonymous actions
> that occur under the auspices of a particular username.
>
> Doe anyone have any suggestions for traffic accounting (of particularly
> ssh traffic) on a per user basis, for _all_ traffic that occurs under the
> auspices of that username, and not just what _they themselves_ initiate,
> personally, in their own login shell ?
>
> Thank you.

I've looked a bit into this, and it appears that sshd changes uid in FreeBSD 
6.0 (I use 6.0RC1) .. I bet upgrading the system would be a lot easier than 
constructing a complex  traffic-accounting system.. I'd think so at least..