simh running as root etc

Hello fellow retrocomputing folks Here's my perspective as the guy whom maintains the Debian package of simh. Lots of people don't like to run or install suid binaries especially something like simh that can overwrite files. Imagine a multiuser system, with simh pdp11 installed as root. Now "attach lpt /etc/passwd" well you get the idea not a good situation. My way around it, was to compile two copies of the pdp11, one plain user prog called pdp11, one with ethernet compiled in called pdp11-ether. If someone wants they can SUID root the pdp11-ether, but I'm not going to do it for them. I am not an expert pdp11 user but this seems to result in no complaints (whom is an expert on all 32 simh emulators other than Bob S ?) The reference to a kernel 2.6 feature that works around all that, is probably a reference to the tun interfaces, the ones used by openvpn and all that. At least that is my guess. Never tried that. Its open source, if you can give a good explanation of what you want in a simh package for Debian, I'll make it happen...