/dev/mmem 666 out of the box. Why?

Chris Wagner jwag at moose.sgi.com
Wed Feb 28 10:07:41 AEST 1990


/dev/mmem is the mapped device interface to /dev/mem - however the
allowed set of mappings
is determined by a table located in /usr/sysgen/master/mem - currently
that contains
only the sound chip and ecc memopry logging ram - neither of these  is a
security issue -
though it is true that one user could interfere with another... The
sound chip is
mainly used to playing around with

Chris Wagner



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