Hi,
I'm developping an application that need to monitor every
network interface of the system. Network interfaces are
virtual/dynamic and go up and down all the time, so to keep track of
my interface list, I'm listening for RTM_NEWLINK events on the
RTnetLink socket (RTMGRP_LINK multicast group).
Problem : this works only as ROOT.
And my mother told me that having my application running as
root is bad for my health.
The cause is here :
----------- net/netlink/af_netlink.c - l322 ------------------
static int netlink_bind(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr *addr, int addr_len)
{
[...]
/* Only superuser is allowed to listen multicasts */
if (nladdr->nl_groups && !capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
return -EPERM;
--------------------------------------------------------------
Why ?
Why ?
Why ?
Have a good day...
Jean
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