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Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:36:54 -0700 (PDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: jmorris@...ei.org Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, jdike@...toit.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow group ownership of TUN/TAP devices (fwd) From: James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org> Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:16:31 -0400 (EDT) > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:05:49 -0400 > From: Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com> > To: maxk@...lcomm.com > Cc: Guido Guenther <agx@...xcpu.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, > vtun@...ice.satix.net > Subject: [PATCH] Allow group ownership of TUN/TAP devices > > I recieved from Guido Guenther the patch below to the TUN/TAP driver > which allows group ownerships to be effective. > > It seems reasonable to me. > > > the attached patches allow tun ownership by group. We found this useful > > since we can then spawn tapX devices on system boot (via > > /etc/network/interfaces) which logged on users can then use for their > > virtual machines. > > > > The first patch is for the kernel, the second one for the tunctl. They > > shouldn't change existing behaviour and we introduced a new syscall for > > the group setting. 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. In case you find these useful, please apply. 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. Thanks! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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