Package: util-linux
Version: 2.12p-7
Severity: normal
Hi,
in the mkswap manpage one reads:
To setup a swap file, it is necessary to create that file before initializing
it with mkswap, e.g. using a command like
# dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1024 count=65536
With Debian's default umask this creates a file with the following permissions:
-rw-r--r--
whereas appropriate permissions are:
-rw-------
Therefore I suggest to add the following command after dd:
# chmod go-rwx swapfile
(This report is related to bug #196857, which will probably not be fixed soon.)
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