Package: src:linux
Severity: wishlist
In the past, admins could get dmesg output without running it as root,
but this is no longer possible:
* security,printk: Enable SECURITY_DMESG_RESTRICT, preventing non-root users
reading the kernel log by default (sysctl: kernel.dmesg_restrict)
(in changelog.linux.gz). It is good that normal users cannot read
the kernel log, but for admins (typically users in the adm group,
who can already read /var/log/kern.log, thus have access to the same
information), this is a regression.
Note: "journalctl -b" also gives kernel logs (among other logs).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500,
'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
