From 1bded710a574f20d41bc9e7fb531301db282d623 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Tokarev Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 23:34:56 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] tun: Check supplemental groups in TUN/TAP driver. Michael Tokarev wrote: [] > 2, and this is the main one: How about supplementary groups? > > Here I have a valid usage case: a group of testers running various > versions of windows using KVM (kernel virtual machine), 1 at a time, > to test some software. kvm is set up to use bridge with a tap device > (there should be a way to connect to the machine). Anyone on that group > has to be able to start/stop the virtual machines. > > My first attempt - pretty obvious when I saw -g option of tunctl - is > to add group ownership for the tun device and add a supplementary group > to each user (their primary group should be different). But that fails, > since kernel only checks for egid, not any other group ids. > > What's the reasoning to not allow supplementary groups and to only check > for egid? Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Reading git-format-patch failed