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Re: blacklisting nodes that probe non-existant nodes



> 
> Anyone can open PF_ROUTE and read from it or write RTM_GET.
> However, you need to have it opened as root to write any other operations.
> Do we have a means of testing that without writing to the socket?
> I'm guessing no.
> 
> I suppose we could enforce testing if SCM_CREDENTIALS passed uid root or same uid as blacklistd as running as or maybe even one that matches a rule in blacklistd.conf?
> 
> Roy

Yes, I saw that. I tried a 0 length write and I got ENOBUFS. I was going to fix
the 0 length write to be a permissions check.

christos

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