Re: strange (or unexplainable) permissions on /var/log/*

[Loïc Minier <lool+debian@via.ecp.fr>]

martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> - Sun, Dec 12, 2004:

> I am trying to make sense of /var/log/*. I noticed the following
> peculiarities:
>   - user.log is 0640. However, aren't "user" messages possibly
>     relevant to users? If so, I suggest making the file 0644.

 I think this is "user" as in "userland", simply because this is the
 default level for programs.

>   - uucp.log, mail.* and news/* are 0644. I would say that these
>     should be 0640.

 I think these are 0640 with syslog-ng!  ;)

>   - why is dmesg 0644? This is not really a problem, but do users
>     need access to the boot messages?

 May be because the information is available via syslog(2) too?  (This
 might be false with selinux, no idea.)

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Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org>