On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 01:46:59PM +0000, Sami Kerola wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 05:25:02PM +0100, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> >> On November 6, 2012 at 4:06 PM mp.lists@xxxxxxx wrote:
> >> > As a first idea, it looks, as if such may be implemented, eg. by
> >> > letting swapon [and fstab-based "mounting"] by default not enable a swap
> >> > file, if it has non-root access permissions
> >>
> >> Did you know?
> >> The swapon utility issues a warning diagnostic with --verbose:
> >>
> >> # ls -l /tmp/swapfile
> >> -rw-r--r-- 1 berny users 134217728 Nov 6 17:03 /tmp/swapfile
> >>
> >> # sbin/swapon -v /tmp/swapfile
> >> swapon /tmp/swapfile
> >> swapon: /tmp/swapfile: insecure permissions 0644, 0600 suggested.
> >> swapon: /tmp/swapfile: insecure file owner 1000, 0 (root) suggested.
> >> swapon: /tmp/swapfile: found swap signature: version 1, page-size 4, same byte
> >> order
> >> swapon: /tmp/swapfile: pagesize=4096, swapsize=134217728, devsize=134217728
> >
> > this waring is there since year 1999.. so it's really nothing new.
>
> I wonder would be be too noisy to make insecurity warnings enabled by
> default, and add --quiet option to thous who do not want to hear
> system complaining about things they know.
>
since util-linux 2.9t:
/* people generally dislike this warning - now it is printed
only when `verbose' is set */
:-)
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Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx>
http://karelzak.blogspot.com
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