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Re: [cobalt-security] syslog.conf Settings
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-security] syslog.conf Settings
- From: Mike Vanecek <nospam99@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 09:54:35 -0600
- Organization: anonymous
- List-id: Mailing list for users to address network security on Cobalt products. <cobalt-security.list.cobalt.com>
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?