On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Mike Lewis wrote:
>
> The default perms on /var/log/messages are:
>
> -rw------- 1 root root 162393 Jan 30 19:58 /var/log/messages
> -rw------- 1 root root 4198458 Jan 30 04:02 /var/log/messages.1
> -rw------- 1 root root 612433 Jan 23 03:40 /var/log/messages.2
>
>
> What would be the security implications of changing the perms to 644 ? What
> I'd like to do is tail my log without having to su. Is there a better way ?
careful. things that others may read in /var/log/messages include, oh,
the PPP chat script results, including account and password if you've
configured it that way.
rday
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