blacklistd: Update documentation changes

Cherry-pick upstream documentation changes.

Obtained from:	 https://github.com/zoulasc/blocklist
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D36086
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Jose Luis Duran 2022-10-12 09:23:39 -04:00 committed by Ed Maste
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3 changed files with 61 additions and 15 deletions

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.\" $NetBSD: blacklistd.8,v 1.18 2016/07/30 06:09:29 dholland Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: blacklistd.8,v 1.23 2020/04/21 13:57:12 christos Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2015 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.Dd October 5, 2018
.Dd April 21, 2020
.Dt BLACKLISTD 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -65,6 +65,42 @@ with syntax specified in
If an entry is matched, a state entry is created for that tuple.
Each entry contains a number of tries limit and a duration.
.Pp
The way
.Nm
does configuration entry matching is by having the client side pass the
file descriptor associated with the connection the client wants to blacklist
as well as passing socket credentials.
.Pp
The file descriptor is used to retrieve information (address and port)
about the remote side with
.Xr getpeername 2
and the local side with
.Xr getsockname 2 .
.Pp
By examining the port of the local side,
.Nm
can determine if the client program
.Dq owns
the port.
By examining the optional address portion on the local side, it can match
interfaces.
By examining the remote address, it can match specific allow or deny rules.
.Pp
Finally
.Nm
can examine the socket credentials to match the user in the configuration file.
.Pp
While this works well for TCP sockets, it cannot be relied on for unbound
UDP sockets.
It is also less meaningful when it comes to connections using non-privileged
ports.
On the other hand, if we receive a request that has a local endpoint indicating
a UDP privileged port, we can presume that the client was privileged to be
able to acquire that port.
.Pp
Once an entry is matched
.Nm
can perform various actions.
If the action is
.Dq add
and the number of tries limit is reached, then a
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kept.
.Pp
If the action is
.Dq remove
.Dq rem
Then the same control script is invoked as:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
control remove <rulename> <proto> <address> <mask> <port> <id>
control rem <rulename> <proto> <address> <mask> <port> <id>
.Ed
.Pp
where
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.Nm
deals with the following signals:
.Bl -tag -width "USR2"
.It HUP
.It Dv HUP
Receipt of this signal causes
.Nm
to re-read the configuration file.
.It INT, TERM & QUIT
.It Dv INT , Dv TERM & Dv QUIT
These signals tell
.Nm
to exit in an orderly fashion.
.It USR1
.It Dv USR1
This signal tells
.Nm
to increase the internal debugging level by 1.
.It USR2
.It Dv USR2
This signal tells
.Nm
to decrease the internal debugging level by 1.

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.\" $NetBSD: blacklistd.conf.5,v 1.7 2017/06/07 13:50:57 wiz Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: blacklistd.conf.5,v 1.9 2019/11/06 20:33:30 para Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2015 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.Dd June 5, 2017
.Dd May 18, 2020
.Dt BLACKLISTD.CONF 5
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ rule that matched.
.Pp
The
.Va remote
rules can be used for whitelisting specific addresses, changing the mask
rules can be used for allowing specific addresses, changing the mask
size, the rule that the packet filter uses, the number of failed attempts,
or the block duration.
.Sh FILES

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.\" $NetBSD: libblacklist.3,v 1.8 2017/10/22 10:31:57 abhinav Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: libblacklist.3,v 1.10 2020/03/30 15:47:15 christos Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2015 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.Dd May 5, 2017
.Dd March 30, 2020
.Dt LIBBLACKLIST 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
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A user successfully authenticated.
.It Va BLACKLIST_ABUSIVE_BEHAVIOR
The sending daemon has detected abusive behavior
from the remote system. The remote address should
from the remote system.
The remote address should
be blocked as soon as possible.
.It Va BLACKLIST_BAD_USER
The sending daemon has determined the username
presented for authentication is invalid. The
presented for authentication is invalid.
The
.Xr blacklistd 8
daemon compares the username to a configured list of forbidden
usernames and
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.Xr getpeername 2
will not work, the server will pass the peer name in the message.
.Pp
In all cases the file descriptor passed in the
.Fa fd
argument must be pointing to a valid socket so that
.Xr blacklistd 8
can establish ownership of the local endpoint
using
.Xr getsockname 2 .
.Pp
By default,
.Xr syslogd 8
is used for message logging.