So anycrack could write to it prior to it being 'moved' right? And then
you have non-world-writeable data under the premise it is untampered.
What's the difference?
Ken
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Nichole Bialczyk wrote:
> well, so the copy didn't work. it required me to place 'use File::Copy;'
> in my script, but i got an error message.
>
> to be more specific, i want to do this: read and delete all of the lines
> from a log file, except for the first one. i keep thinking grep, but
> isn't that only a unix command? and it doesn't delete.
>
> basically, for anyuser to write to my logfile, it has to be world
> writeable. but my boss doesn't like the possibility of someone tampering
> with our data. unfortunately, we are restricted to afs and anyone could
> write to that file. so here is the compromise:
>
> i am writing a script that will read and delete all of the lines, but the
> first one, and copy the data into a file in a directory where there
> aren't any write permissions. we are going to run this script every night
> at 11:59 PM to gather the day's logfile.
>
> don't ask me, i just work here :)
>
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