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On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 4:50 PM, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 05/02/2012 01:58 PM, Simon wrote: |
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> <excellent help snipped for brevity> |
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>> Except for issue pointed out by Paul about hibernation |
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> That's an interesting point, and the reason for the problem is definitely |
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> not obvious to me. Anyone know the technical details? |
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>> As for security, having a swap is less |
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>> secure than having none: a malicious persion could extract |
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>> information from programs memory which was swapped |
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> BTW, man mkswap says nothing about proper file permissions for a swapfile. |
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> I'm guessing that only root should be able to read the file? |
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Actually it looks like it may be possible, depending on which method |
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you use for suspending. Here's a kernel document talking about using |
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swap files and swsusp: |
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https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt |
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