Subject: Re: /dev permissions question.
To: Abraham J. Stephens <stephea@aasis.albany-academy.org>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@cam.ac.uk>
List: current-users
Date: 07/15/1998 15:31:52
Abraham J. Stephens wrote:
> 
> When a user other then root trys to use 'ps' the following occurs:
> 
> ps: /dev/mem: Permission denied
> 
> What should the permissions of this device be?

crw-r-----  1 root  kmem    2, 0 Oct  5  1997 /dev/mem

But I think what you really need is:

-r-xr-sr-x  1 root  kmem  172032 Jul 14 22:23 /bin/ps
      ^

Cheers,

Patrick