Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Don Armstrong ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: >> > On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 05:24:28PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: >> > > What about log files with sensitive content? >> > >> > Non-issue, as I said in the end of my post, those should be removed >> > on purge. >> >> The log files that are created by the default package configuration >> should be removed, but custom modifications to the configuration can >> cause logfiles to be created elsewhere that are owned by the user in >> question. > > Have we actually got a specific case of this happening and there being a > real security threat from it?
When I ran a samba server years ago, I changed the default log file names and, IIRC, location. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
