Article 4GAK4 Clear Linux Moving Ahead With Blocking dmesg Access For Non-Root Users

Clear Linux Moving Ahead With Blocking dmesg Access For Non-Root Users

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Most Linux distributions allow unfettered access to dmesg for seeing the kernel log outputs, but seeing as kernel addresses can be dumped to this output and could be exploited by bad actors, Clear Linux is joining the select few Linux distributions so far blocking non-root users from seeing this output mostly used for debugging purposes...
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