netdev - Re: PATCH: Network Device Naming mechanism and policy

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Message-ID: <20091011184731.GA4560@kroah.com>
Date:	Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:47:31 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	David Zeuthen <david@...ar.dk>
Cc:	Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@...l.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-hotplug@...r.kernel.org,
	Narendra_K@...l.com, jordan_hargrave@...l.com
Subject: Re: PATCH: Network Device Naming mechanism and policy

On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 12:40:18PM -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 09:25 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > Ok, but that way can be done in userspace, without the need for this
> > char device, right?
> 
> It might actually be nice to have a device file anyway since you can use
> existing udev infrastructure to adjust permissions (e.g. chown it to the
> netdev group) and add ACLs. This would allow running some software as an
> unprivileged user instead of uid 0.

But as the char nodes would not actually control access to anything, how
would this help?  Remember, these device nodes are "dummies" with
nothing behind them (open() fails).

thanks,

greg k-h
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