netdev - Re: using per-socket ipsec policies as user

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Date:	Sun, 11 Nov 2012 01:25:51 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	hannes@...essinduktion.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, steffen.klassert@...unet.com
Subject: Re: using per-socket ipsec policies as user

From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 07:21:55 +0100

> in commit 6fc0b4a xfrm policy loading via setsockopt was restricted
> to CAP_NET_ADMIN. I wondered if the situation of the xfrm interface
> got better since then or what needs to be done to remove this
> restriction.

It's an intentional restrction and has a lot less to do with any
aspect of our implementation, but rather has more to do with what
operations we wish to allows non-privileged users to do or not.
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