Re: /dev/kmem: Permission denied
Casper Dik (casper@fwi.uva.nl)
Tue, 31 Jan 1995 23:41:00 +0100
>/dev/mem and /dev/kmem are normally group kmem, not group sys. At
>least on any system I've ever looked at, which I mercifully has not
>included Solaris yet.
In Solaris 2.x they are owned by group sys.
>Check the permissions on (say) top; if it's setgid kmem, then kmem/mem
>will have to be group kmem, or else world read, for it to work. Check
>your backups and see what group owned them there.
Top needs to be set-uid root on a non-nosuid mounted fs.
Casper