On 19-Oct-99 Christopher J. Morrone wrote:
> dmesg is not suid root...so the users can get that information themselves
> without dmesg, or compile their own copy of dmesg.  There isn't much point
> in changing the permissions on dmesg.
> 
> It is only on binaries that are suid and provide some special priveledges
> that this is useful.

Thanks, I had wondered about that.

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Andrew


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