From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 23 9:41:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC46914F72 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 09:41:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA63146; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 11:41:30 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 11:41:30 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: "Jason C. Wells" Cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: Password in my log file Message-ID: <19990923114130.A62679@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Sep 23), Jason C. Wells said: > I found my password in my log file!!!! > > I am guessing that I must have typed in my password at the login: prompt > and syslogd entered the attempt as an attempt from "password". > > Is there a way to make sure this doesn't happen? Add authpriv.none to the syslog.conf line of the logfile you don't want private auth information written to. See the manpage for syslog.conf for a setup that logs sensitive stuff to /var/log/secure. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message