permissions on swap (UNIXPC)

Bill Carpenter wjc at ho5cad.ATT.COM
Sun Jun 18 00:27:51 AEST 1989


In article <559 at uncle.UUCP> jbm at uncle.UUCP (John B. Milton) writes:

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

> Yes, it is a hole, no it nee$ not be readable

I'm sure what JBM meant was that it need not be world readable.  Some
folks reading this may not be aware that the "ps" command needs to
read /dev/swap on many occasions and runs setGid "sys" on the UNIXpc.

A perm of 640 would be okay, for example, but not 600.
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