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Date:      Sat, 3 May 2008 19:51:06 +0400
From:      Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: logger blocking
Message-ID:  <20080503155104.GH92161@amilo.cenkes.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080503111941.L10738@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
References:  <20080503111941.L10738@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>

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On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 11:21:16AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> how to prevent logger working for non-root?
> it allows any user log anything it likes.
> 
> i can change permission for /var/run/syslogd.socket but many different 
> programs running as different users logs through this.

Let's see what options we have...
a) rm -rf /usr/bin/logger
b) echo 'echo I am a bad boy;rm -rf $HOME' > /usr/bin/logger
c) create group 'syslog'
   add good users to it
   chown :syslog /var/run/syslogd.socket
   chmod 660 /var/run/syslogd.socket



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