Making /var/log/messages readable

[Craig White]

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...
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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


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