[867] in bugtraq
Re: /dev/kmem: Permission denied
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Oliver Friedrichs)
Tue Jan 31 19:57:26 1995
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 17:15:48 -0600 (CST)
From: Oliver Friedrichs <iceman@MBnet.MB.CA>
To: der Mouse <mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Cc: bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: <199501311244.HAA10369@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
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
