From: Constantine A. Murenin (murenincgmail.com)
Date: Tue Dec 04 2007 - 13:15:42 CST

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On 04/12/2007, Constantine A. Murenin <murenincgmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Actually, it was always rotated with 644 permissions, starting with
NetBSD dated 1993.

What would be the rationale for 640? ;)

C.

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