Capabilities split the root privilege up in certain rights -
capabilities. Beside the fact that the kernel asks for certain
capabilities it doesnt provide the use of capabilities.
I'm using Serge E. Hallyn introduce fs
caps patch (http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/9/6/229) and Kaigai Kohei's
userspace
Hi,
checking the Changelog for 2.6.18 (and diffing) one can see, that the
CAP_NET_ADMIN requirement was added for the tun/tap inerface in tun.c. The
question is, is it acceptable for a user to add a tun/tap interface in a
running system. It was before 2.6.18. A different approach is, to grant
Hi,
That might be some security issues with removal of that capability
check. I think it is not a good idea to remove it.
2006/10/14, chris friedhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hello,
bringing up the tun/tap interface depends now on the capability CAP_NET_ADMIN,
which usually only root has.
This
Hello,
bringing up the tun/tap interface depends now on the capability CAP_NET_ADMIN,
which usually only root has.
This patch just removes this dependency, so normal user rights suffices again
to bring up the tun/tap interface.
diff -ruN linux-2.6.18-orig/drivers/net/tun.c
This came up in IRC a few days ago, it seems you need to use the UML
util 'tunctl' to assign permissions to the tap device. I found this
change annoying.
On 10/13/06, G Portokalidis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello all,
I have recently installed the latest linux kernel, and i have been
having
