Does Ultrix 4.0 finally have a secure /dev/*mem ?

Johan Vromans jv at mh.nl
Thu Aug 2 03:27:45 AEST 1990


In article <52842 at iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> kinzler at 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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