Re: Qemu and tun/tab usage - /dev/net/tun permissions

[Bob McGowan <bob_mcgowan@symantec.com>]

Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 09:37:13AM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote:
> > Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > > On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 12:15:57AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 04:10:11PM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote:
> > > > > On my system, the file /etc/udev/rules.d/020_permissions.rules is a 
> > > > > symlink to the file ../permissions.rules.  So, content is the same ;(
> > > > Sorry.  I'm out of ideas then.
> > > grep -r tun /etc/udev/* 
> > >
> > > returns a reference to /etc/udev/links.conf. you should read that file
> > > and maybe comment out the tun reference there. 
> > >
> > > A
> > Commenting out the line 'M net/tun   c  10 200' in /etc/udev/links.conf 
> > resulted in no node being created in /dev/net.
> >
> > Restoring the line, I still get a device node with rw permissions for 
> > the owner only (no surprise, just validating). ;(
>
>
> that line is a MAKEDEV parameter line -- try adding an "owner group
> mode" to is and see what happens
>
> maybe "root root 0666" tacked on the end of the line.
>
>
> A

No go.  Adding your suggested 3 elements resulted in failure to 'run', 
in that the node was not created.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Bob

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