Re: /dev/ksyms permissions

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On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 07:19:32PM +0100, Anders Magnusson wrote:
> libkvm uses it to get the kernel symbol namelist instead of reading /netbsd
> for it (originally kvmdb, which was retired when ksyms was added).
> Programs like ps, netstat etc... uses it to find in-kernel stuff, so you
> cannot change it to require root privs to be read.
> Maybe group kmem read, but that might require more elevated privileges in
> the programs that uses ksyms.

Thanks for the heads up. I was wondering if I missed an obvious non-root
user.