On Wed, 2024-03-13 at 16:47 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 3/13/24 16:05, Ron Flory via users wrote: > > does not happen on FC38, or any prior RedHat/Fedora version since > > forever. > > > > dmesg > > dmesg: read kernel buffer failed: Operation not permitted > > > > Userspace scripts (such as used to read pics from cameras & > > sdcards) > > and many progs often use dmesg to detect or identify things like > > startup > > probe info, USB devs, partition numbers etc. > > > > I worked around this by setting the suid bit of `which dmesg`, > > but it > > would be rude to force everybody to manually do this as part of > > post-install cleanup. > > > > Hopefully an unintended side-effect and not a new "feature" that > > wasn't thought through completely. A web-search suggests > > debian/ubuntu > > may have been doing this for awhile- but we really don't need to be > > just > > like them... ;) > > This was intentional and there was a thread about this recently, > probably on devel or test. It's considered to be a big security > issue. > > If you're in the wheel group, you can use "journalctl -k". I think the error message is unhelpful. 'dmesg' could easily detect that it wasn't running as root and say something more meaningful. poc -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
