Re: kernel ring buffer accessible by users

From: Grzegorz Jaskiewicz (gj@pointblue.com.pl)
Date: Tue Apr 22 2003 - 11:52:49 EST

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On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 17:44, Michael Buesch wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 April 2003 18:21, Julien Oster wrote:
> > it's been quite a while that I noticed that any ordinary user, not
> > just root, can type "dmesg" to see the kernel ring buffer.
>
> just make
> $ chmod 700 /bin/dmesg
and chmod 0600 /var/log/dmesg , as on some systems it is rw-r--r--

-- Grzegorz Jaskiewicz <gj@pointblue.com.pl> K4 labs

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