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On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:

> mdodd       2005-04-13 00:30:19 UTC
>
>  FreeBSD src repository
>
>  Modified files:
>    share/man/man4       tap.4
>    sys/net              if_tap.c
>  Log:
>  Provide a sysctl (net.link.tap.user_open) to allow unpriviliged
>  acces to tap(4) device nodes based on file system permission.
>
>  Duplicate the 'debug.if_tap_debug' sysctl under the
>  'net.link.tap' hierarchy.

Is there any reason to require suser() at all for open, given that our 
devfs permissions are conservative?  Maybe we should remove that suser() 
and add a couple for specific tapioctl() calls that are more sensitive?

Robert N M Watson