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Date:      Fri, 8 Aug 1997 00:41:18 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Jamil J. Weatherbee" <jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <perlsta@sunyit.edu>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: log access files?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970808004031.483B-100000@counterintelligence.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970808020800.2156B-100000@server.local.sunyit.edu>

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He is right this should be the default --- I am not the only one to admit
that I often (when in a hurry) acciedntally type my password in the login:
prompt.



On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> 
> What would be a good way to keep the files:
> /var/log/messages*.*
> 
> readable only by certain users? just incase someone types thier password
> at the login prompt i don't want those files public...
> 
> ._________________________________________ __ _
> |Alfred Perlstein - Programming & SysAdmin
> |perlsta@sunyit.edu
> |http://www.cs.sunyit.edu/~perlsta
> : ---"Have you seen my FreeBSD tatoo?"
> '
> 
> 




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