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From: Peter Hoeg <peter@hoeg.com>
To: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Running nft --check as non-root
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2022 23:53:35 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874jyiu661.fsf@hoeg.com> (raw)


Hey all,

as part of deploying nftables rules on NixOS, I want to check the syntax before actually trying to deploy them.

Now, nft --check --file works fine when run as root but the builder used does not have root permissions (or access to sudo or anything like that). Is there any particular reason why nft --check needs to run as root or any way to make it work as !root?

$ nft --check --file foo; echo $?
1

$ sudo nft --check --file foo; echo $?
0

Thanks in advance,
Peter

             reply	other threads:[~2022-08-11 15:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-11 15:53 Peter Hoeg [this message]
2022-08-11 16:15 ` Running nft --check as non-root Florian Westphal
2022-08-12  5:15   ` Peter Hoeg

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