Re: Match owner

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:49:17AM +0200, Bjoern Meier wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm bit confused about the -m owner option.
>
> If I set:
> -A OUTPUT -d <IP> -m owner --uid-owner <username> -j ACCEPT
>
> It fails and my logging shows, that the Rule will be ignored und goes to the
> deny rule (last rule).
>
> What did I wrong?
>
> I also read that that match is disabled in newer kernels. I used the Lenny
> Kernel 2.6.26-2-amd64. Is this option disabled in this kernel and if so, how
> can I reenabled that (I did not find it in menuconfig).

last time i used this is was disabled on smp machines because there was
no way to guarantee a matching. not sure if this had been fixed

>
> Greetings,
> Björn

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