netdev - Re: [PATCH] Allow group ownership of TUN/TAP devices (fwd)

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Date:	Mon, 02 Jul 2007 22:50:46 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jdike@...toit.com
Cc:	jmorris@...ei.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, agx@...xcpu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow group ownership of TUN/TAP devices (fwd)

From: Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:59:11 -0400

> On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 10:36:54PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > This patch looks fine.
> > 
> > I'd like it resubmitted with a proper changelog and signoff, and once
> > I have that I will thus queue it up for the 2.6.23 merge window.
> 
> Introduce a new syscall TUNSETGROUP for group ownership setting of tap
> devices. The user now is allowed to send packages if either his euid or
> his egid matches the one specified via tunctl (via -u or -g
> respecitvely). If both, gid and uid, are set via tunctl, both have to
> match.
> 
> Signed-Off-By: Guido Guenther <agx@...xcpu.org>
> Signed-Off-By: Jeff Dike <jdike@...ux.intel.com>

Patch applied, thanks a lot!
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