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Commit ca6bb5d7 authored by David Woodhouse's avatar David Woodhouse Committed by David S. Miller
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[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: default avatarDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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