Subject: Re: /dev permissions question.
To: Abraham J. Stephens <stephea@aasis.albany-academy.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: current-users
Date: 07/15/1998 16:48:15
On Jul 15, 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 9 1997 /dev/mem
Also check that 'ps' is sgid kmem:
-r-xr-sr-x 1 bin kmem 167936 Jun 11 14:03 /bin/ps*
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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI. Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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