network: vde_switch does not require root #38
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Just a bit of erronous documentation. VDE's whole purpose was to run a networking stack as a user without requiring root; vde_switch defaults to setting the UID/GID of the socket to the user that initiated it with mode 0600: plenty good enough for most users (and 86Box usage). The default socket directory is already /tmp/vde.ctl, too, but might as well keep it in the documentation here so that it's more obvious to change.
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Just a bit of erronous documentation. VDE's whole purpose was to run a networking stack as a user without requiring root; vde_switch defaults to setting the UID/GID of the socket to the user that initiated it with mode 0600: plenty good enough for most users (and 86Box usage).
The default socket directory is already /tmp/vde.ctl, too, but might as well keep it in the documentation here so that it's more obvious to change.