Re: [PATCH] mkswap: Add warnings for insecure device permissions/owners

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On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 10:03:47PM +0000, Sami Kerola wrote:
> Alternatively one could make swapon to get rid of all permission bits
> and set ownership to UID 0 by default when ever it activates a
> swapfile. How about that.

Not sure if want to change any permissions on the fly, it would be
better to reject files (by swapon) with insecure permissions and
require something like --force for crazy users who wants to ignore
this problem.

    Karel

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