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From: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" <jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org>
To: Alfred Perlstein <perlsta@sunyit.edu>
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Subject: Re: log access files?
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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?"
> '
> 
>