Does Ultrix 4.0 finally have a secure /dev/*mem ?
Yoseff Francus
francus at e2big.mko.dec.com
Wed Aug 1 04:21:25 AEST 1990
In article <1990Jul31.154912.22096 at watcgl.waterloo.edu> idallen at watcgl.waterloo.edu (Ian! D. Allen [CGL]) writes:
>Is memory still world-readable under Ultrix 4.0?
>--
>-IAN! (Ian! D. Allen) idallen at watcgl.uwaterloo.ca idallen at 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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