Why is CAP_NET_ADMIN insufficient permissions for ioctl(TUNSETIFF)?
I'm trying to write a very simple tun/tap program in Rust. Since I don't want it to run as root I've added CAP_NET_ADMIN to the binary's capabilities:
$sudo setcap cap_net_admin=eip target/release/tunnel
$getcap target/release/tunnel
target/release/tunnel = cap_net_admin+eip
However, this is not working. Everything I've read says that this is the only capability required to create tuns, but the program gets an EPERM on the ioctl. In strace, I see this error:
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/dev/net/tun", O_RDWR|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
fcntl(3, F_GETFD) = 0x1 (flags FD_CLOEXEC)
ioctl(3, TUNSETIFF, 0x7ffcdac7c7c0) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted)
I've verified that the binary runs successfully with full root permissions, but I don't want this to require sudo to run. Why is CAP_NET_ADMIN not sufficient here?
For reference, I'm on Linux version 4.15.0-45 there are only a few ways I see that this ioctl can return EPERM in the kernel (https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v4.15/source/drivers/net/tun.c#L2194) and at least one of them seems to be satisfied. I'm not sure how to probe the others:
if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
return -EPERM;
...
if (tun_not_capable(tun))
return -EPERM;
...
if (!ns_capable(net->user_ns, CAP_NET_ADMIN))
return -EPERM;
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I'm trying to write a very simple tun/tap program in Rust. Since I don't want it to run as root I've added CAP_NET_ADMIN to the binary's capabilities:
$sudo setcap cap_net_admin=eip target/release/tunnel
$getcap target/release/tunnel
target/release/tunnel = cap_net_admin+eip
However, this is not working. Everything I've read says that this is the only capability required to create tuns, but the program gets an EPERM on the ioctl. In strace, I see this error:
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/dev/net/tun", O_RDWR|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
fcntl(3, F_GETFD) = 0x1 (flags FD_CLOEXEC)
ioctl(3, TUNSETIFF, 0x7ffcdac7c7c0) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted)
I've verified that the binary runs successfully with full root permissions, but I don't want this to require sudo to run. Why is CAP_NET_ADMIN not sufficient here?
For reference, I'm on Linux version 4.15.0-45 there are only a few ways I see that this ioctl can return EPERM in the kernel (https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v4.15/source/drivers/net/tun.c#L2194) and at least one of them seems to be satisfied. I'm not sure how to probe the others:
if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
return -EPERM;
...
if (tun_not_capable(tun))
return -EPERM;
...
if (!ns_capable(net->user_ns, CAP_NET_ADMIN))
return -EPERM;
capabilities ioctl
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I'm trying to write a very simple tun/tap program in Rust. Since I don't want it to run as root I've added CAP_NET_ADMIN to the binary's capabilities:
$sudo setcap cap_net_admin=eip target/release/tunnel
$getcap target/release/tunnel
target/release/tunnel = cap_net_admin+eip
However, this is not working. Everything I've read says that this is the only capability required to create tuns, but the program gets an EPERM on the ioctl. In strace, I see this error:
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/dev/net/tun", O_RDWR|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
fcntl(3, F_GETFD) = 0x1 (flags FD_CLOEXEC)
ioctl(3, TUNSETIFF, 0x7ffcdac7c7c0) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted)
I've verified that the binary runs successfully with full root permissions, but I don't want this to require sudo to run. Why is CAP_NET_ADMIN not sufficient here?
For reference, I'm on Linux version 4.15.0-45 there are only a few ways I see that this ioctl can return EPERM in the kernel (https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v4.15/source/drivers/net/tun.c#L2194) and at least one of them seems to be satisfied. I'm not sure how to probe the others:
if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
return -EPERM;
...
if (tun_not_capable(tun))
return -EPERM;
...
if (!ns_capable(net->user_ns, CAP_NET_ADMIN))
return -EPERM;
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I'm trying to write a very simple tun/tap program in Rust. Since I don't want it to run as root I've added CAP_NET_ADMIN to the binary's capabilities:
$sudo setcap cap_net_admin=eip target/release/tunnel
$getcap target/release/tunnel
target/release/tunnel = cap_net_admin+eip
However, this is not working. Everything I've read says that this is the only capability required to create tuns, but the program gets an EPERM on the ioctl. In strace, I see this error:
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/dev/net/tun", O_RDWR|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
fcntl(3, F_GETFD) = 0x1 (flags FD_CLOEXEC)
ioctl(3, TUNSETIFF, 0x7ffcdac7c7c0) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted)
I've verified that the binary runs successfully with full root permissions, but I don't want this to require sudo to run. Why is CAP_NET_ADMIN not sufficient here?
For reference, I'm on Linux version 4.15.0-45 there are only a few ways I see that this ioctl can return EPERM in the kernel (https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v4.15/source/drivers/net/tun.c#L2194) and at least one of them seems to be satisfied. I'm not sure how to probe the others:
if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
return -EPERM;
...
if (tun_not_capable(tun))
return -EPERM;
...
if (!ns_capable(net->user_ns, CAP_NET_ADMIN))
return -EPERM;
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