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Re: log permissions



>>>>> "Christian" == Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org> writes:

>> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        10152 Nov  3 14:49 wdm.log

Christian> Also I don't know what this file contains, but as the name suggest, it
Christian> has been created by wdm. So it may contain information about who has
Christian> logged into the box at which time.

Nope, it simply contains the output of the X server (like the one you
get with "X -probeonly").  So it belongs to the same category as
/var/log/dmesg - configuration and hardware information that is public
by nature.

-- 
Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A.
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