On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 01:40:10PM +0000, Sami Kerola wrote:
> swapon(8) is not expected to be setuid binary, but if it is try to avoid
> obvious security vulnerability of executing user preferred mkswap file as
> someone else, such as root.
I have replaced this with code to drop permissions, so it executes
mkswap, but as non-root and all depends on mkswap and file/device
perms.
Karel
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