Hi

I am trying to determine the access to unix devices. I found the follow access description which I have been told is a symbolic link and is not the actual file. I was also told that all symbolic links will have rwxrwxrwx access.

kmem: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 27 May 28 16:06 /dev/kmem -> ../devices /pseudo/mm @0: kmem

Can someone tell me where I can find what access has been given to devices.

Thanks

Can't you just have a look at the destination of the symlink for the permissions? Maybe that is too simple?

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Pete

You can resolve the symbolic link automatically by using -L with ls:

ls -Ll /dev/kmem