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From: todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us (Todd Day)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: permissions on swap (UNIXPC)
Message-ID: <1989Jun14.042038.432@ivucsb.sba.ca.us>
Date: 14 Jun 89 04:20:38 GMT
Reply-To: todd@ivucsb.UUCP (Todd Day)
Organization: The Audio Club at UCSB, Isla Vista, California
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Here are the permissions on my swapspace device:

brw-r--r--  1 sys     sys       0,  1 Jan  1  1970 /dev/swap

I think this is a security hole... what do you think?  Must it
be world readable?

Also, even though my swap space HAS been used, why is the last
update date big-bang (unix time)?
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Todd Day | todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us | ivucsb!todd@anise.acc.com
"All theory, no practice.  That's the story of my life."