tinc - Oct 2004 - user-mode tinc?

Is anyone working on a completely user-mode tinc?  My
situation is that I have administrative control over part of
my network but I also have nodes that live in virtual machines
and in simple user accounts where I can create TCP 
connections and high-port listening sockets all I please, but I don't
have access beyond that, and I would like to
run a user-mode tinc daemon in those accounts to 
access a tinc VPN.

it may be that multiplexing the connections over SSH
rather than using a lower level of abstraction is what
I've got to do.

thanks for listening

-- 
David L Nicol
transportation infrastructure technology contracting since 2002

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 11:00:09AM -0500, David Nicol wrote:
> Is anyone working on a completely user-mode tinc?  My
> situation is that I have administrative control over part of
> my network but I also have nodes that live in virtual machines
> and in simple user accounts where I can create TCP 
> connections and high-port listening sockets all I please, but I don't
> have access beyond that, and I would like to
> run a user-mode tinc daemon in those accounts to 
> access a tinc VPN.
If you do a checkout of the latest version of tinc from the Subversion
repository, you can do this (you also need the latest autotools):

autoreconf -f -s -i
./configure <any configure options you want to give>
cd src
ln -sf uml/device.c .
cd ..
make

Then you have a version of tinc that can interface directly with a
user mode Linux kernel. In tinc.conf, put something like:

Device = /tmp/umlsocket

First start tinc, then start the UML:

linux eth0=daemon,,unix,/tmp/umlsocket <other options>

Now you have an eth0 interface in your UML, which you can configure like
you would normally do from tinc-up. This way you don't need root access
for tinc (although you have to configure tinc to run on a port >= 1024
instead of the default 655).

Is this what you want?

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
    Guus Sliepen <guus@sliepen.eu.org>
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