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Re: Permissions of /var/log



On Tue, 25 Jan 2000 at 15:59, Santiago Vila wrote about "Permissions of...":

> a) All of them should be root.root.
> b) All of them should be root.adm.
> c) This should not be covered by policy.

I think an equally important question should be the permissions on such
files.

Some files should definitely not have permissions for "other" to read them
-- like mail.log and syslog . Both have privacy issues, if not security
issues, involved.

-- 
Brock Rozen                                              brozen@torah.org


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