On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 11:09:47AM +0000, Sami Kerola wrote:
> On 23 January 2016 at 16:22, Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Why not completely optional?
>
> $ swapon --path-permissions [ignore|complain|stop|fix]
I don't think we want to merge another functionality to swapon. The
warnings are enough. For the rest we have ch{own,mod}.
Let's Keep It Simple and Stupid. We all love kisses, right? :-)
Karel
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