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-rwxr-xr-xscripts/poky-qemu-ifdown18
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/poky-qemu-ifup53
2 files changed, 35 insertions, 36 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/poky-qemu-ifdown b/scripts/poky-qemu-ifdown
index 93a87559af..ece2dc998a 100755
--- a/scripts/poky-qemu-ifdown
+++ b/scripts/poky-qemu-ifdown
@@ -1,6 +1,15 @@
#!/bin/bash
#
-# QEMU network interface configuration script.
+# QEMU network configuration script to bring down tap devices. This
+# utility needs to be run as root, and will use the tunctl binary
+# from a Poky sysroot.
+#
+# If you find yourself calling this script a lot, you can add the
+# the following to your /etc/sudoers file to be able to run this
+# command without entering your password each time:
+#
+# <my-username> ALL=NOPASSWD: /path/to/poky-qemu-ifup
+# <my-username> ALL=NOPASSWD: /path/to/poky-qemu-ifdown
#
# Copyright (c) 2006-2010 Intel Corp.
#
@@ -18,9 +27,14 @@
# 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
usage() {
- echo "$0 <tap-dev> <native-sysroot-basedir>"
+ echo "sudo $0 <tap-dev> <native-sysroot-basedir>"
}
+if [ $EUID -ne 0 ]; then
+ echo "Error: This script (poky-qemu-ifdown) must be run with root privileges"
+ exit 1
+fi
+
if [ $# -ne 2 ]; then
usage
exit 1
diff --git a/scripts/poky-qemu-ifup b/scripts/poky-qemu-ifup
index 5ae6c6aefb..cd4c47b608 100755
--- a/scripts/poky-qemu-ifup
+++ b/scripts/poky-qemu-ifup
@@ -6,14 +6,17 @@
# tunctl which does not support the group permissions option, hence
# the need to use Poky's version.
#
-# If this script is being run standalone in order to set up a bank of tap
-# devices for later qemu use, then a group id must be the first argument.
-# The resulting tap device will be group-owned by this group, and qemu
-# users must be members of this group.
+# If you find yourself calling this script a lot, you can add the
+# the following to your /etc/sudoers file to be able to run this
+# command without entering your password each time:
#
-# If the kernel is too old to support TUNSETGROUP, then a user must be passed
-# in as the second argument, the tap device will be owned by that user, and
-# only that user will be able to use it.
+# <my-username> ALL=NOPASSWD: /path/to/poky-qemu-ifup
+# <my-username> ALL=NOPASSWD: /path/to/poky-qemu-ifdown
+#
+# If you'd like to create a bank of tap devices at once, you should use
+# the poky-gen-tapdevs script instead. If tap devices are set up using
+# that script, the poky-qemu script will never end up calling this
+# script.
#
# Copyright (c) 2006-2010 Intel Corp.
#
@@ -31,26 +34,24 @@
# 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
usage() {
- echo "$0 <gid> {uid} <native-sysroot-basedir>"
- echo "Where uid is *only* included if this script complains when it's missing"
+ echo "sudo $0 <gid> <native-sysroot-basedir>"
}
-if [[ $# -lt 2 || $# -gt 3 ]]; then
+if [ $EUID -ne 0 ]; then
+ echo "Error: This script (poky-qemu-ifup) must be run with root privileges"
+ exit 1
+fi
+
+if [ $# -ne 2 ]; then
usage
exit 1
fi
-USER=""
GROUP="-g $1"
-if [ $# -eq 2 ]; then
- NATIVE_SYSROOT_DIR=$2
-else
- USER=$2
- NATIVE_SYSROOT_DIR=$3
-fi
+NATIVE_SYSROOT_DIR=$2
TUNCTL=$NATIVE_SYSROOT_DIR/usr/bin/tunctl
-if [ ! -e "$TUNCTL" ]; then
+if [ ! -x "$TUNCTL" ]; then
echo "Error: Unable to find tunctl binary in '$NATIVE_SYSROOT_DIR/usr/bin'"
if [[ "$NATIVE_SYSROOT_DIR" =~ ^\/opt\/poky ]]; then
@@ -64,22 +65,6 @@ fi
TAP=`$TUNCTL -b $GROUP 2>&1`
STATUS=$?
-if [[ "$TAP" =~ "TUNSETGROUP" ]]; then
- # TUNSETGROUP failed because of permissions or the kernel being too old
- # Retry, falling back to a specific user
- if [ "$USER" = "" ]; then
- echo "TUNSETGROUP failed - add a username to the command line in order"
- echo "to have the tap device owned by that user"
- exit 1
- fi
- TAP=`$TUNCTL -b -u $USER 2>&1`
- STATUS=$?
- # Force this to appear on stderr in order that the user sees it if this
- # is running from poky-qemu-internal and in order to avoid having this
- # output confuse it.
- echo "Only user $USER will be able to use $TAP - upgrade the kernel to " 1>&2
- echo "2.6.23 or later in order to allow group access to tap devices" 1>&2
-fi
if [ $STATUS -ne 0 ]; then
echo "tunctl failed:"
echo $TAP