SIMH & root

David> Speaking of SIMH.. SIMH requires root privileges to do its David> networking (at least on most of its unix host OS's), David> understandably, but I'm not happy with it... David> So I've hacked up some code changes that'll let me change the David> UID/GID & chroot() SIMH is running on from the SIMH console. David> The idea is.. David> attach (network devs) attach (other root owned devs) set priv David> root=/some/chroot/jail gid=-1 uid=-1 (continue configuring) David> Anyways, my question is, does anyone else think this would David> even vaguely be useful? Sounds sensible. Then again, can you achieve the same result by changing the mode or owner/group of the devices in question? Hm, I suppose that doesn't apply to network interfaces because those don't have modes or owners... paul