On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19:25:02 +0200 Frédéric Massot <frede...@juliana-multimedia.com> wrote:
> Le 13/09/2010 17:27, Stephen Hemminger a écrit : > > On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 23:51:39 +0200 > > Frédéric MASSOT<frede...@juliana-multimedia.com> wrote: > > > [...] > >> > >> Thank you for the reply. > >> > >> For access to audio or disk, we add user to group audio or floppy. > >> > >> Is it possible to do the same thing by adding the user snmp to group > >> netdev? > > > > It is not an issue with group membership. Snmpd would have to either > > root or have capability net_admin. It is not easy to setup a process to run > > with additional capabilities; it requires setting up pam_cap, and setting > > capability on executable. > > [Assumption] If the network interfaces were managed like other devices > with a node in the folder "/dev". Will adding a user to a group would > address this type of problem? > > I am often asked why the network interfaces were managed differently > from other devices, it is a historical convention or technical problems? :o) Blame Bill Joy at BSD... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
