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authorSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>2006-07-03 10:25:08 -0400
committerSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>2006-07-03 10:25:08 -0400
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Merge rsync://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts: include/linux/kernel.h
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt11
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt b/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt
index 278771c9ad9..44f2f769e86 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ Examples:
pgset "pkt_size 9014" sets packet size to 9014
pgset "frags 5" packet will consist of 5 fragments
pgset "count 200000" sets number of packets to send, set to zero
- for continious sends untill explicitl stopped.
+ for continuous sends until explicitly stopped.
pgset "delay 5000" adds delay to hard_start_xmit(). nanoseconds
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt b/Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt
index 76750fb9151..839cbb71388 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt
@@ -39,10 +39,13 @@ Copyright (C) 1999-2000 Maxim Krasnyansky <max_mk@yahoo.com>
mknod /dev/net/tun c 10 200
Set permissions:
- e.g. chmod 0700 /dev/net/tun
- if you want the device only accessible by root. Giving regular users the
- right to assign network devices is NOT a good idea. Users could assign
- bogus network interfaces to trick firewalls or administrators.
+ e.g. chmod 0666 /dev/net/tun
+ There's no harm in allowing the device to be accessible by non-root users,
+ since CAP_NET_ADMIN is required for creating network devices or for
+ connecting to network devices which aren't owned by the user in question.
+ If you want to create persistent devices and give ownership of them to
+ unprivileged users, then you need the /dev/net/tun device to be usable by
+ those users.
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