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.
------------------------------------------------------------------
Elite MicroComputers 908-541-4214 http://www.psychosis.com/emc/
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
debian-user-request@lists.debian.org .
Trouble? e-mail to templin@bucknell.edu .
Reply to: