dmesg permission change

I installed 12.2 a few weeks ago and recently installed again from the same USB stick to clean up my noob tinkering. Now dmesg is not permissable from a non-root account. Message "sysctl kern.msgbuf" complains. I find it inconvenient to activate root just to check read-only system messages.

"sysctl -a" reveals a ton of parameters but not kern.msgbuf exactly. Can something be put in the .conf file to make dmesg usable as default like before the new 12.2?
 
Did you try to set security.bsd.unprivileged_read_msgbuf ? First try without setting it, then set it with: sysctl security.bsd.unprivileged_read_msgbuf=1
 
Thanks Martin, your idea works but sysctl.conf holds the flag at zero. I will try editing the file and rebooting.
 
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