[Pkg-uml-pkgs] Bug#507625: /usr/sbin/tunctl: device permissions not explained

[michal.suchanek at ruk.cuni.cz]

Package: uml-utilities
Version: 20070815-1.1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/sbin/tunctl


The tunctl command has -u and -g options but the man page does not
explain how the options interact.

-u device accessible by the designated uid

-g device accessible by users with the designated primary gid

-g -u device accessible by users who have both the designated uid and
primary gid (in other words useless)

Once -g or -u is specified it is not cleared by call with the other
option specified, and the ownership is invisible. The only way to
specify ownership is to first use the -d option and then specify the
desired ownership.

Thanks

Michal


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.28-rc6-minimacmacmini (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages uml-utilities depends on:
ii  adduser                   3.110          add and remove users and groups
ii  libc6                     2.7-16         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfuse2                  2.7.4-1.1      Filesystem in USErspace library
ii  libncurses5               5.6+20080830-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libreadline5              5.2-3          GNU readline and history libraries
ii  lsb-base                  3.2-20         Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

uml-utilities recommends no packages.

Versions of packages uml-utilities suggests:
pn  user-mode-linux               <none>     (no description available)

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