Re: Insecure permission for swap partition.

["J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)" <jhm@cistron.nl>]

On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 14:47:01 -0500, Fu-Dong Chiou wrote:
> I got a warning message saying the swap partition has insecure permission
> 0660, which should be changed to 0600.  I looked at the man page of 
> swapon, but could not find the info to change the permission.  How do I 
> change it?

Have a look at
	info "file utilities" "file permissions"
or do
	man chmod

("chmod 0600 /dev/hda7" [or whatever your swap partition is] should do the
trick).

HTH,
Ray
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