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Re: [cobalt-security] syslog.conf Settings



On Sun, 5 Nov 2000 15:18:26 +0000 (GMT), Gossi The Dog <gossi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

:>On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, James Hoaggs wrote:
:>
:><snip>
:>
:>>  Lastly, has anyone changed all the log files permissions'
:>>  to root and belonging to the wheel group as follows? :
:>>
:>>  chown root.wheel /var/log/*
:>>  chmod 600 /var/log/*
:>
:>I have, to no ill effect.  Everything Cobalt ship runs as root by default
:>I believe.  Certainly, its not caused any problems for me.

Would you not need to use chmod 640 * so that any user in the wheel could read
the logs? Would not 600 only allow root to rw the logs?

Otherwise, why change the group to wheel? Or am I missing something?