From: Sarah Newman <srn@prgmr.com>
To: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: "Wayne R. Roth" <wayneroth42@gmail.com>,
util-linux <util-linux@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mkswap: Add warnings for insecure device permissions/owners
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 13:39:27 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56A6960F.4070404@prgmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160123162241.pwvqxyfm4qv2apgo@ws.net.home>
On 01/23/2016 08:22 AM, Karel Zak wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 10:03:47PM +0000, Sami Kerola wrote:
>> Alternatively one could make swapon to get rid of all permission bits
>> and set ownership to UID 0 by default when ever it activates a
>> swapfile. How about that.
>
> Not sure if want to change any permissions on the fly, it would be
> better to reject files (by swapon) with insecure permissions and
> require something like --force for crazy users who wants to ignore
> this problem.
Rejecting insecure permissions in swapon will make warnings in mkswap even more important. Are there any further changes required to Wayne's latest
patch to mkswap.c https://marc.info/?l=util-linux-ng&m=145327019508709&w=2 before it is merged?
Thanks, Sarah
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-25 21:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-19 18:37 [PATCH] mkswap: Add warnings for insecure device permissions/owners Wayne R. Roth
2016-01-19 19:44 ` Mike Frysinger
2016-01-20 4:17 ` [PATCH] mkswap: Add warnings for insecure device permissions/owners Logic modified from sys-utils/swapon.c Wayne R. Roth
2016-01-20 4:58 ` Mike Frysinger
2016-01-20 6:09 ` [PATCH] mkswap: add " Wayne R. Roth
2016-01-26 10:35 ` Karel Zak
2016-01-20 9:39 ` [PATCH] mkswap: Add warnings for insecure device permissions/owners Sami Kerola
2016-01-20 10:30 ` Karel Zak
2016-01-21 22:19 ` Sarah Newman
2016-01-22 16:01 ` Tilman Schmidt
2016-01-22 19:14 ` Sarah Newman
2016-01-22 22:03 ` Sami Kerola
2016-01-23 16:22 ` Karel Zak
2016-01-24 11:09 ` Sami Kerola
2016-01-25 19:55 ` Sami Kerola
2016-01-26 10:42 ` Karel Zak
2016-01-26 16:28 ` Sarah Newman
2016-01-25 21:39 ` Sarah Newman [this message]
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