[874] in bugtraq
Re: /dev/kmem: Permission denied
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Schlitt)
Wed Feb 1 13:41:06 1995
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 09:23:37 -0500 (EST)
From: Dan Schlitt <dan@ees1s0.engr.ccny.cuny.edu>
To: Casper Dik <casper@fwi.uva.nl>
Cc: der Mouse <mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>, bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: <199501312241.AA03770@mail.fwi.uva.nl>
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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Dan Schlitt School of Engineering Computer Systems
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