From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 24 7:24:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from inferno.mikrus.pw.edu.pl (inferno.mikrus.pw.edu.pl [148.81.93.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5505F37B40C for ; Fri, 24 May 2002 07:23:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 27655 invoked from network); 24 May 2002 14:30:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO grzybek) (10.1.44.81) by inferno.mikrus.pw.edu.pl with SMTP; 24 May 2002 14:30:29 -0000 Message-ID: <000801c2032f$26056830$512c010a@grzybek> From: =?iso-8859-2?Q?Grzybowski_Rafa=B3?= To: Subject: Syslog Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 16:27:34 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0005_01C2033F.E91A19A0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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

Hi,

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 ?

I would be very gratefull for any=20 answer

Grzybowski = Rafal

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