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



On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 11:53:31AM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to set up bridged networking for a Qemu guest system.  The 
> doc I have says I need to do a 'chmod 666 /dev/net/tun' to be able to do 
> this.
> 
> And, I see the permissions on it are:
> 
> crw------- 1 root root 10, 200 2007-02-27 16:28 /dev/net/tun
> 
> So, methinks, I should fix the udev configuration so it sets the 
> permissions to 666 rather than 600.
> 
> Only one problem.  /etc/udev/permissions.rules says:
> 
> KERNEL=="tun",                  MODE="0666"
> 
> So, why is /dev/net/tun not mode 666 already?

You could try MODE=="0666" 

-- 
Chris.
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