Re: kernel ring buffer accessible by users

Jörn Engel (joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de)
Tue, 22 Apr 2003 18:54:18 +0200


On Tue, 22 April 2003 18:44:05 +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 22 April 2003 18:21, Julien Oster wrote:
> > it's been quite a while that I noticed that any ordinary user, not
> > just root, can type "dmesg" to see the kernel ring buffer.
>
> just make
> $ chmod 700 /bin/dmesg

scp /bin/dmesg remote:
ssh remote ./dmesg

Jörn

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