Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!mhres!squirrel!jv
From: jv@mh.nl (Johan Vromans)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Does Ultrix 4.0 finally have a secure /dev/*mem ?
Message-ID: <1990Aug1.172745.20200@squirrel.mh.nl>
Date: 1 Aug 90 17:27:45 GMT
References: <52842@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Sender: jv@squirrel.mh.nl (Johan Vromans)
Reply-To: Johan Vromans <jv@mh.nl>
Organization: Multihouse Automation, the Netherlands
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In-Reply-To: kinzler@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu's message of 1 Aug 90 02:50:28 GMT


In article <52842@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> kinzler@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Steve Kinzler) writes:
> We achieved the same situation without problem for Ultrix 3.0 by making
> these system programs setgid kmem:
> 
> ... lots of programs ...

A number of programs are from MH. Why do these programs need /dev/kmem
access? 

	Johan

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