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From: wjc@ho5cad.ATT.COM (Bill Carpenter)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: permissions on swap (UNIXPC)
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Date: 22 Jul 89 14:27:51 GMT
References: <1989Jun14.042038.432@ivucsb.sba.ca.us> <559@uncle.UUCP>
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In-reply-to: jbm@uncle.UUCP's message of 16 Jun 89 21:37:39 GMT

In article <559@uncle.UUCP> jbm@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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   Bill Carpenter         att!ho5cad!wjc  or  attmail!bill