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| author | David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> | 2006-06-22 16:07:52 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net> | 2006-06-23 02:07:44 -0700 |
| commit | ca6bb5d7ab22ac79f608fe6cbc6b12de6a5a19f0 (patch) | |
| tree | 7255df98fa5692c498605d2bd80402ec866f134a /Documentation/networking | |
| parent | f4b8ea7849544114e9d3d682df4d400180854677 (diff) | |
[NET]: Require CAP_NET_ADMIN to create tuntap devices.
The tuntap driver allows an admin to create persistent devices and
assign ownership of them to individual users. Unfortunately, relaxing
the permissions on the /dev/net/tun device node so that they can
actually use those devices will _also_ allow those users to create
arbitrary new devices of their own. This patch corrects that, and
adjusts the recommended permissions for the device node accordingly.
Signed-off-By: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
| -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 |