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From: Oleg Broytmann <phd@ice.ru>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: ps permissions
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 16:55:05 -0400
Organization: Institute for commercial engineering
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Brian E. Golon wrote:
>
> When I try to use ps from a non-superuser account i get :
>
> ps: /dev/mem: Permission denied
>
> /dev/mem has the following properties:
>
> crw-r----- 1 root kmem 2,0,0 Jan 23 1996 /dev/mem
>
> Any suggestions as to why a normal user cannot use ps?
>
> TIA,
>
> Brian.
Make ps set-gid to group kmem:
% chmod g+s /bin/ps
% ls -l /bin/ps
-r-xr-sr-x bin kmem /bin/ps
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Oleg Broytmann Institute for commercial engineering phd@ice.ru
Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.