Re: /dev/kmem: Permission denied

[dan () ees1s0 engr ccny cuny edu (Dan Schlitt)]

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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