Fu-Dong Chiou wrote:
>
> Thanks a lot! I didn't know I can chmod a partition as well. That takes
> care of my problem now.
You do not change permission for the partition, just for the
device file, which programs use to perform operations upon
the device..
If a userlevel program could perform actions upon the swap
partition it could write directly to the paged out memory
of your box..
Marcus
>
> Chip
>
> J.H.M. Dassen wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 14:47:01 -0500, Fu-Dong Chiou wrote:
> > > I got a warning message saying the swap partition has insecure permission
> > > 0660, which should be changed to 0600. I looked at the man page of
> > > swapon, but could not find the info to change the permission. How do I
> > > change it?
> >
> > Have a look at
> > info "file utilities" "file permissions"
> > or do
> > man chmod
> >
> > ("chmod 0600 /dev/hda7" [or whatever your swap partition is] should do the
> > trick).
> >
> > HTH,
> > Ray
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> Best wishes,
> Chip
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