Re: Safe to add read attributes to /dev/kmem?

From: Bill Verzal (Bill_Verzal@BCBSIL.COM)
Date: Tue Oct 01 2002 - 16:40:05 EDT

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Don't do it!
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Bill Verzal
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Hello,

        Our DBA's want to run top but can't because of the permissions on
/dev/kmem. I was thinking of running a simple chmod o+r /dev/kmem command
but wanted to run it by the group before I hit [return].

Is there anything wrong with this?

TIA,
Anthony

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