Enabling the kernel's DMESG_RESTRICT feature

Bryce Harrington bryce at canonical.com
Tue May 24 22:59:53 UTC 2011


On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:46:48AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> In Oneiric, I'd like to change the default availability of yet another
> long-standing system debugging feature: dmesg.
> 
> Thoughts, flames, etc?

See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/716595 for some
sudo caching problems apport has had to work around which might pose
some complications here as well.

Can you outline your plans for updating apport in conjunction with this
change?

Bryce



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