Nikolai Weibull <address@hidden> wrote:
> I don't want to go through sudo just to read system messages. (Of
> course, how much sensitive data can one really find in
> /var/log/messages, so perhaps I can just set it to 0640?)
Passwords?
Seriously, if someone mistakenly types their password at the login prompt, it'll show up in /var/log/messages. Granted that's more likely to be a problem for telnet connections than ssh connections, so if you're not allowing telnet connections then maybe you're ok.
--Joe
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