From: Lennert B. <bu...@gn...> - 2000-08-22 18:07:23
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On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, David Woodhouse wrote: > What's the reason for requiring a daemon to be run as root? > > Wouldn't it be possible to simply use a /dev/tap{x] device directly from > the UML? Then all root needs to do is: > > ifconfig tap0 $IPADDR pointopoint $UMLADDR > chown $UMLUSER /dev/tap0 I think you have never tested something like this. greetings, Lennert |