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Re: /var/log/messages not world-readable anymore?



On Wed, 9 Jul 1997 12:44:03 -0400 (EDT), Will Lowe wrote:

>On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Joey Hess wrote:
>
>> I've got sysklogd 1.3-17 and it's made /var/log/messages no longer be world
>> readable. Is there some security problem with letting any user read it?
>
>/var/log/messages can also find my login and password for my ISP (in my
>case,  my university).

Not if you enclose the password in '/q' like the standard 
/etc/ppp.chatscript does.

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