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From: Michael Buesch <fsdeveloper@yahoo.de>
To: Julien Oster <frodo@dereference.de>
Subject: Re: kernel ring buffer accessible by users
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 18:44:05 +0200
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On Tuesday 22 April 2003 18:21, Julien Oster wrote:
> it's been quite a while that I noticed that any ordinary user, not
> just root, can type "dmesg" to see the kernel ring buffer.

just make
$ chmod 700 /bin/dmesg

-- 
Regards Michael Buesch.
http://www.8ung.at/tuxsoft

$ cat /dev/zero > /dev/null
/dev/null: That's *not* funny! :(