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



martin f krafft wrote:

I am just stepping through this an notice that the sysklogd postinst
does:

  for LOG in `syslogd-listfiles` `syslogd-listfiles --auth`; do
    if [ ! -f $LOG ]; then
        touch $LOG
    fi
    chown root:adm $LOG
    chmod 640 $LOG
  done

Nice race condition. Fortunately, unlike #282058 (which, AFAICT, is redundant, so not really a problem), this one only happens once, when the package is installed, which for sysklogd is normally before any users exist to take advantage of it.



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