Re: Insecure permission for swap partition.

[chioufd@sas.upenn.edu (Fu-Dong Chiou)]

Thanks a lot!  I didn't know I can chmod a partition as well.  That takes 
care of my problem now. 

Chip

J.H.M. Dassen wrote:
> 
> 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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Best wishes,
Chip