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SubjectRe: kernel ring buffer accessible by users
On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 01:45:30PM -0300, Werner Almesberger wrote:
> Yes, but you'll get quite a few objections to adding yet another
> suid root program :-)

Why not make it mode 440, and have a mount option for the proc
filesystem that gives which gid certain sensitive files should have.
The openwall security patch does this (with a few further restrictions
to the permissions of certain /proc files) and I like it a lot.

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