Re: [RFC] Fast-user-switching plans



On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 17:19 +0100, Marc Herbert wrote:
> Le 27/05/2010 15:26, José Queiroz a écrit :
> > 
> > And that's the point. If the system offers us the separation of
> > resources like files, why can't a network connection be personal?
> 
> Simply because IP is not designed like this at all. NetworkManager's
> scope is make IP networking easy; not to re-invent the Internet.

Actually, couldn't something be done with Netfilter rules? The
connection (a VPN, say) might technically be system-wide, but with rules
enforcing that only applications running as a certain user could send
and receive packets on it? Perhaps imperfect, but a starting point...

Simon.

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