There's no reason not to allow unprivileged users to open /dev/net/tun -- you need CAP_NET_ADMIN to do anything interesting with it anyway, unless a persistent device has been created and specifically given to the user in question... in which case it's extremely _useful_ for them to be able to use it. Please change the default mode to 0666.
Oops, I lie -- we do allow users to create new devices. I'll need to fix that in the kernel first.
(In reply to comment #1) > Oops, I lie -- we do allow users to create new devices. I'll need to fix that in > the kernel first. David, please let me know which version of the kernel package introduces this fix, so that I can make the package conflict with older versions which don't contain the fix. Then I'll be happy to make this change.
Fixed in kernel 2.6.17-1.2309_FC6.
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