permissions on swap (UNIXPC)

Todd Day todd at ivucsb.sba.ca.us
Wed Jun 14 14:20:38 AEST 1989


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 at ivucsb.sba.ca.us | ivucsb!todd at anise.acc.com
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