[vpnc-devel] vpnc intended to run as normal user ?

[Felix Möller]

Hi,

On 13.04.2010 15:46, Raymond Wooninck wrote:
> I am packaging vpnc for openSUSE and we received a bugreport that the
> tun device can not be created when running it as normal user. When
> running under root everything works as expected.
>
> For me this would be the normal circumstances (running as root) as that
> network devices, etc are being created. However the user indicates that
> vpnc is intended to be run as a normal user.
>
> I would like to have your opinion on this.
there is NetworkManager-vpnc, which can be run as user. But the real 
vpnc is supposed to be called as root AFAIK.

regards
Felix