[Pkg-net-snmp-devel] Bug#520724: Speed interface is 0

[Frédéric Massot]

Le 13/09/2010 17:27, Stephen Hemminger a écrit :
> On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 23:51:39 +0200
> Frédéric MASSOT<frederic at juliana-multimedia.com>  wrote:
>
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>>
>> 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)


Regards.
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