Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 16:27:34 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-2?Q?Grzybowski_Rafa=B3?= <grzybek@inferno.mikrus.pw.edu.pl> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Syslog Message-ID: <000801c2032f$26056830$512c010a@grzybek>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C2033F.E91A19A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, I've got one question about system logs and server security. As far = I know there is a C function syslog(...) which may be used to write = something to the system log. What should be done to prevent users from = using it and doing nasty things with system log. Changing permisions to = header syslog.h won't work of course. What should I do ? I would be very gratefull for any answer Grzybowski Rafal ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C2033F.E91A19A0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-2"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2716.2200" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Hi,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> I've got one = question about=20 system logs and server security. As far I know there is a C function = syslog(...)=20 which may be used to write something to the system log. What should be = done to=20 prevent users from using it and doing nasty things with system log. = Changing=20 permisions to header syslog.h won't work of course. What should I do=20 ?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I would be very gratefull for any=20 answer</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Grzybowski = Rafal</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C2033F.E91A19A0-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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