On 04/12/2007, Constantine A. Murenin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 04/12/2007, Lars Noodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
