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

Re: /dev/kmem: Permission denied

Dan Schlitt (danees1s0.engr.ccny.cuny.edu)
Wed, 1 Feb 1995 09:23:37 -0500 (EST) 

On Tue, 31 Jan 1995, Casper Dik 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.
> 
> In Solaris 2.x they are owned by group sys.
> 

The thing that I find missing in this discussion is a rationale for
the change in group ownership.  Having at one time run a script
supplied by Sun to change the ownership of lots of files because of
securtity problems in SunOS I am not confident that Sun has well
thought out reasons for changes such as the one being talked about
here.

/dan

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