[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#570358: Bug#570358: Bug#570358: liberate /var/log/dmesg today

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Apr 2010, jidanni at jidanni.org wrote:
> > One cannot do many things on just a pipe vs. a file.
> > Please liberate this file today!
> > And not only for new installations.
> 
> Can you be more specific?

Never mind. I see what you mean.

FWIW, I agree we can chmod 644 /var/log/dmesg, as the dmesg command is not
restricted in the first place by default (and you need something like
SELinux to restrict it, anyway).

That said, users that need to poke around with /var/log/dmesg should
probably belong to the adm group.

Also, you CAN just chmod /var/log/dmesg, and it will retain the
permissions, at least for the "I have /bin/dmesg" case.

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