From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow group ownership of TUN/TAP devices (fwd) Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 22:50:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20070702.225046.102906247.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20070618.223654.14957392.davem@davemloft.net> <20070621145911.GA5874@c2.user-mode-linux.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jmorris@namei.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, agx@sigxcpu.org To: jdike@addtoit.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:43499 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752138AbXGCFu1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jul 2007 01:50:27 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070621145911.GA5874@c2.user-mode-linux.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Jeff Dike 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 > Signed-Off-By: Jeff Dike Patch applied, thanks a lot!