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Bugtraq archives for 2nd quarter (Apr-Jun) 1994: Re: /dev/{km,m}em worries (now crash )

Re: /dev/{km,m}em worries (now crash )

Chris Phillips (chrisotter.cs.yorku.ca)
Wed, 18 May 94 07:22:44 EDT 

 |Date: Tue, 17 May 94 17:01:31 CDT
 |From: jimTadpole.COM (Jim Thompson)


 |> My solution was simply chmod 700 /etc/crash on all my systems.   Root
 |> is the only one that needs it anyway....

 |Obviously nobody at your site debugs crashed kernels...
 |(Or they don't use crash.)

Remember that there can be confidential data (passwords etc.) in the crash
dump(s) too... so you may want to keep them under restricted permissions or
keep /etc/crash under restricted permissions.

Chris Phillips (chriscs.yorku.ca)