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Re: /var/log/messages permissions in 4.2
From: Constantine A. Murenin (mureninc
gmail.com)
Date: Tue Dec 04 2007 - 13:03:13 CST
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On 04/12/2007, Lars Noodin <larsnoodenopenoffice.org> wrote:
> I'm noticing that the messages log seems to be world readable in 4.2
> e.g.
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1801 Dec 4 17:51 messages
>
> What's up with that? Shouldn't it be set to 640? If not what is the
> rationale for 644?
It has been like this for a very long time, since 2002-11 and OpenBSD 3.3.
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/etc/newsyslog.conf#rev1.20
Cheers,
Constantine.
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