Hello all, Since some time I get the message > swapon: [...]: insecure permissions 1660, 0660 suggested.
[1] is related to this. I'm not worried, but there are two things I wonder: 1) Foremost, what does the sticky bit on character or block device files even _mean_? I'm guessing it's meaningless, but I wonder. My Google fu comes up empty. <paranoid mode> It's a big cover up? </paranoid mode> ;P 2) How come the sticky bit is set for a whole bunch of character and block devices? Grepping through udev rules didn't shed light on it. I didn't feel like reading all rules manually, hoping somebody already knows. Here you can see a few of all those device files on my (Wheezy) box: root@tweek:/dev# find -perm -1000 -printf '%P %y\n'|sort -n adsp c audio c autofs c btrfs-control c bus/usb/001/001 c [...] bus/usb/008/001 c cpu/microcode c dm-0 b [...] dm-9 b dsp c fd0 b fuse c loop0 b [...] loop7 b loop-control c lp0 c mapper/control c mem c mixer c net/tun c parport0 c port c ppp c sda1 b [...] sdf b snd/controlC0 c [...] snd/timer c sr0 b ttyS0 c [...] ttyS3 c uinput c Greets, Peter. PS: CC: to me is welcome. [1] <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=196857#31> -- I use the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) in combination with Enigmail. You can send me encrypted mail if you want some privacy. My key is available at http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~lebbing/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f3a801e.3050...@digitalbrains.com
