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Re: Permsiions on /dev/kmem, etc.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mhpower@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Sep 13 17:30:36 1991

From: mhpower@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [8189] in Athena Bugs
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 91 17:31:08 EDT


>                                                      ... The update
>changed the gid's of tty, and kmem.
...
>tty:*:5:root
>kmem:*:6:root

A possibly interesting feature of this change is that the GID's of tty
and kmem now also designate valid user groups (eddiedp and mdcap).
Would anything bad happen if they tried to log in to a decmips?

Matt

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