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From: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: xload and access to load average
Date: 02 Nov 1994 07:21:49 GMT
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In-reply-to: ahvezda@jemez.eece.unm.edu's message of 2 Nov 1994 05:05:26 GMT
In article <3976mm$i8i@lynx.unm.edu> ahvezda@jemez.eece.unm.edu (Ales Vaclav Hvezda) writes:
The file, xload, has the following permissions:
-rwsr-xr-x 1 bin kmem 12288 Sep 28 08:07 /usr/X11R6/bin/xload
I think it should more properly be:
-rwxr-sr-x 1 bin kmem 12288 Sep 28 08:07 /usr/X11R6/bin/xload
E.g. sgid kmem, not suid bin!
xload, ps, w and friends all need to be able to read /dev/kmem. You
don't want to have /dev/kmem readable by ALL since that would be a security
hole.
Jordan