Re: chmod of active swap file blocks

[Andries Brouwer]

On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 02:12:41AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Neale Banks <neale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > How much of the original problem goes away if swapon(8) were to refuse to
> >  activate a file/device which has ownership/mode which it doesn't like?
> 
> I think swapon(8) should at least warn when the swapfile has inappropriate
> permissions.  It's an obvious and outright security hole.

swapon had this warning for a while, but that generated lots of complaints.
Now this message is printed only when the -v (verbose) flag is given.

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