[arch-general] udev-139 and file permissions of /dev/net/tun

[Aaron Griffin]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Attila <attila at invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> i use a script to prepare a bridged network for a kvm session and therefore i
>> have this line in /etc/udev/rules.d/01-attila.rules:
>>
>> KERNEL=="tun", NAME="net/%k", MODE="0660", GROUP="network"
>>
>> After upgrading udev my file permissions of the new persistent /dev/net/tun
>> looks so after booting up:
>>
>> crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 10, 200  8. Mär 00:43 /dev/net/tun
>>
>> I play with this lines in /etc/udev/permissions.d/00-my.permissions:
>>
>> a) tun:root:network:0660
>> b) net/tun:root:network:0660
>>
>> I reboot even after changing the line but there is no change. If i do
>> a "modprobe tun" there be the right permissions:
>>
>> crw-rw---- 1 root network 10, 200  8. Mär 00:43 /dev/net/tun
>>
>> So my questions is how and/or where can i control the file permissions of the
>> persistent devices from the new udev?
>>
>> This is definitly not bad, i want more to know what i have overseen.-)
>
> tun and a few other devices (loopX) are created statically in
> /lib/udev/devices/ and then placed on top of /dev/ when udev starts
> up. You can modify the initial permissions of these devices there

If the default group of some of these devices should be changed (looks
like tun should be in the network group by default), please file a bug
report