From owner-freebsd-security Mon Jul 27 03:04:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA15623 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 03:04:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell6.ba.best.com (jkb@shell6.ba.best.com [206.184.139.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA15442 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 03:03:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkb@best.com) Received: from localhost (jkb@localhost) by shell6.ba.best.com (8.9.0/8.9.0/best.sh) with SMTP id DAA08297 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 03:03:29 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: shell6.ba.best.com: jkb owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 03:03:28 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jan B. Koum " X-Sender: jkb@shell6.ba.best.com To: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: files in /var/log Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello all, Be default FreeBSD has many files in /var/log group write. What is the reason for that? Can we change this to be group read only? Also, would it make more sence to ship /var/log/messages o-r by default? Why do we want all world to know what goes into our /var/log/messages files? [we would also need to modify /etc/newsyslog.conf's mode column to 640 then] -- Yan Jan Koum jkb@best.com | "Turn up the lights; I don't want www.FreeBSD.org -- The Power to Serve | to go home in the dark." "Write longer sentences - they are paying us a lot of money" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message