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[NET]: Require CAP_NET_ADMIN to create tuntap devices.
authorDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Thu, 22 Jun 2006 23:07:52 +0000 (16:07 -0700)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>
Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:07:44 +0000 (02:07 -0700)
commitca6bb5d7ab22ac79f608fe6cbc6b12de6a5a19f0
tree7255df98fa5692c498605d2bd80402ec866f134a
parentf4b8ea7849544114e9d3d682df4d400180854677
[NET]: Require CAP_NET_ADMIN to create tuntap devices.

The tuntap driver allows an admin to create persistent devices and
assign ownership of them to individual users. Unfortunately, relaxing
the permissions on the /dev/net/tun device node so that they can
actually use those devices will _also_ allow those users to create
arbitrary new devices of their own. This patch corrects that, and
adjusts the recommended permissions for the device node accordingly.

Signed-off-By: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt
drivers/net/tun.c