On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 15:35 -0800, Forrest Sedgwick wrote: > Hello everyone, I have a security question. I was wondering what the > risks are in making /var/log/messages readable by everyone. I am often > checking this log and right now I need to su every time to do it. I > have not modified syslog.conf in anyway, so the entry for messages still > reads: > > *.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none /var/log/messages > > This is on my laptop, which is not used as any time of server or > anything. But since I'm a newbie I thought it would be a good idea to > check before changing around these types of security settings... ---- better idea - why not forward root's mail to your regular email account and that way you will receive daily logwatch instead of root? Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
