From: Kevin Chadwick (ma1l1istsyahoo.co.uk)
Date: Wed Sep 22 2010 - 05:45:10 CDT

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On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:25:02 +0100
Owain Ainsworth <zerooagooglemail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 06:32:50PM -0700, Matthew Dempsky wrote:
> > /dev/tun* are already owned by root and mode 0600 by default, so it
> > seems redundant to check suser() in tunopen().
>
> Looks like vnd could have the same change for the same resons.
>
> If so i'll whip up the requisite two-liner.
>
> -0-
> --
> Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
> -- Pablo Picasso
>

I can see potential reasons for changing the user on tun devices and
so saw no problem at all. I wonder if it is better however to have the
check at runtime for things like vnconfig, could having the wrong user
jeopardise an encryption password at all?.

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