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| author | Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> | 2006-07-03 10:25:08 -0400 |
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| committer | Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> | 2006-07-03 10:25:08 -0400 |
| commit | 0a1340c185734a57fbf4775927966ad4a1347b02 (patch) | |
| tree | d9ed8f0dd809a7c542a3356601125ea5b5aaa804 /Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt | |
| parent | af18ddb8864b096e3ed4732e2d4b21c956dcfe3a (diff) | |
| parent | 29454dde27d8e340bb1987bad9aa504af7081eba (diff) | |
Merge rsync://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:
include/linux/kernel.h
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt | 11 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt b/Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt index 76750fb9151..839cbb71388 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt @@ -39,10 +39,13 @@ Copyright (C) 1999-2000 Maxim Krasnyansky <max_mk@yahoo.com> mknod /dev/net/tun c 10 200 Set permissions: - e.g. chmod 0700 /dev/net/tun - if you want the device only accessible by root. Giving regular users the - right to assign network devices is NOT a good idea. Users could assign - bogus network interfaces to trick firewalls or administrators. + e.g. chmod 0666 /dev/net/tun + There's no harm in allowing the device to be accessible by non-root users, + since CAP_NET_ADMIN is required for creating network devices or for + connecting to network devices which aren't owned by the user in question. + If you want to create persistent devices and give ownership of them to + unprivileged users, then you need the /dev/net/tun device to be usable by + those users. Driver module autoloading |