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From: francus@e2big.mko.dec.com (Yoseff Francus)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Does Ultrix 4.0 finally have a secure /dev/*mem ?
Message-ID: <438@e2big.mko.dec.com>
Date: 31 Jul 90 18:21:25 GMT
References: <1990Jul31.154912.22096@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: francus@e2big.mko.dec.com (Yoseff Francus)
Organization: Digital Equiment Corporation
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In article <1990Jul31.154912.22096@watcgl.waterloo.edu> idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Ian! D. Allen [CGL]) writes:
>Is memory still world-readable under Ultrix 4.0?
>-- 
>-IAN! (Ian! D. Allen) idallen@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu
> [129.97.128.64]  Computer Graphics Lab/University of Waterloo/Ontario/Canada

No it is not. /dev/mem now has a 640 protection with ownership
of roots and group mem. mem is a new group and has groupid 6.

yoseff
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