From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Description of problem: 0755 permissions mode for swap file is a wrong idea. After upgrade (from RH 7.3) it's look like this -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 269484032 Oct 1 16:41 SWAP Anyone can do something like this: strings SWAP |grep root sometimes we can find in swap file many interesing things like /etc/shadow. I think, that's 0600 permission mode are more secure. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Upgrade system from RH 7.3 2. 3. Additional info:
Fixed in CVS
Time tracking values updated
Close this as fixed in RHL9?
*** Bug 84805 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***