Control: tag -1 upstream On Thu, 2017-10-12 at 12:14 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > Package: usbip > Severity: wishlist > > Some tools (like Gnuk) offer USB device emulation, exported to the host > for testing via usbip. > > However, when using usbip in this way, any local user account with > packet-sniffing privilege (e.g. members of group "wireshark" in a common > debian convention) get access to the traffic over the USB port. > > It would be great to enable usbip-style device exposure over a > SOCK_STREAM unix-domain socket as well as a TCP-based socket, since this > would make it possible to provide emulated USB devices without routing > traffic through the networking stack. Please discuss this with the upstream maintainers: M: Valentina Manea <valentina.manea.m@gmail.com> M: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com> M: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> L: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. - Lily Tomlin
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