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

Art Zemon - EIS ULTRIX Unit zemon at ioctl.mko.dec.com
Wed Aug 1 04:24:23 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?


No.  /dev/*mem is readable/writable only by root and readable by
group "kmem".  Appropriate programs are setgid.


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