What are Firewalld Services?

About

Services are pre-configured firewall properties for known services.

It's a naming functionality where you can use them in place of a port (ie number and protocol, udp-tcp)

Command

List all known services

firewall-cmd --get-services

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Get their properties

In the conf directory

ll /usr/lib/firewalld/services/
# and for one specific
cat /usr/lib/firewalld/services/ssh.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<service>
  <short>SSH</short>
  <description>Secure Shell (SSH) is a protocol for logging into and executing commands on remote machines. It provides secure encrypted communications. If you plan on accessing your machine remotely via SSH over a firewalled interface, enable this option. You need the openssh-server package installed for this option to be useful.</description>
  <port protocol="tcp" port="22"/>
</service>

List the services

List the services configured:

in the default zone

firewall-cmd --list-services

services bounded to a zone (public) that accepts traffic

firewall-cmd --list-services --zone=public

dhcpv6-client ssh

Add or remove a service from the default zone

firewall-cmd --add-service=kerberos --permanent
firewall-cmd --remove-service=kerberos --permanent

Add or remove a service with the zone defined

firewall-cmd --add-service=ssh --zone=home --permanent
firewall-cmd --remove-service=kerberos --zone=public --permanent