On 28/07/10 16:07 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 08:24:51AM -0500, Dan White wrote:
On 28/07/10 10:28 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
No. The tools must not send debug messages without being asked to do
so. Why does libsasl use syslog for interactive usage anyway?
It's a design philosophy of how libsasl attempts to perform debugging
since, in many cases, it's the only way (via syslog) that it can provide
feedback to the user or system administrator.
This is no "feedback", because I didn't ask for it. This is a DoS
against the system via syslog. If you think this output is important,
please describe what a normal user can read out of it, especially as
there is no surrounding information.
This philosophy is briefly discussed in:
http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/imapd/install-configure.html
Where is this documented _in_ the Debian package that the user must
change the default syslog config?
It is quite tersely documented in upstream within the doc/sysadmin.html,
but there is no mention in the Debian README.
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Dan White
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