Re: New user for logcheck
On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 04:09:28PM +0000, Rene Mayrhofer wrote:
> Logcheck is a new package in potato and it's purpose is to check the
> system log files for unusal parts. It is a shell script that is run from
> cron.
> I got a suggestion for the logcheck package that I like. The suggestion
> was that logcheck should run as an own uid with the gid 'adm' (so that
> it can read the system log files). That would mean that a new uid is
> needed (or does it make sense to use an existing one - I don't think
> so).
> Would that be a problem ?
What does the new userid buy us? Does the script accept user input? Does
it create files? What about running it as nobody?
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Mike Stone
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