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Bugtraq archives for 1st quarter (Jan-Mar) 1995: Re: /dev/kmem: Permission denied

Re: /dev/kmem: Permission denied

Oliver Friedrichs (icemanMBnet.MB.CA)
Tue, 31 Jan 1995 17:15:48 -0600 (CST)

On Tue, 31 Jan 1995, der Mouse wrote:

> /dev/mem and /dev/kmem are normally group kmem, not group sys.  At
> least on any system I've ever looked at, which I mercifully has not
> included Solaris yet.

crw-r-----   1 root     sys       13,  0 Jan 31 01:04 /dev/mem
crw-r-----   1 root     sys       13,  1 Jan 31 01:04 /dev/kmem

(Solaris 2.3)

-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     sys       147440 Aug 21 00:59 /usr/kvm/crash

(sgid sys by default, chmod g-s it)

- Oliver