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Date:      Fri, 11 Oct 2002 12:24:16 +0800
From:      "Roman V. Mashak" <mrv@tv2.tomsk.ru>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Security questions
Message-ID:  <20021011042416.GA3718@mrv.tusur.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20021010.12422900.3222565378@rafter.>
References:  <20021009.22451000.4017525480@rafter.> <20021010023701.GJ21391@hades.hell.gr> <20021010.10135300.3745751216@rafter.> <20021010102838.GN21391@hades.hell.gr> <20021010.12422900.3222565378@rafter.>

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On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 12:42:29PM +0000, Socketd wrote:
> > write or modification access through access lists.  But that's
> > something we ought to reconsider when ACLs are widely available on
> > FreeBSD, imho.

> I am not the biggest fan of ACL's and I think we can solve this problem 
> with the tools we have now. We have /var and different daemons and the 
> kernel have to write messages to different files in that "dir". The 
> interface to /var/ should be syslogd, meaning that all files in that 
> "dir" should be owned by syslog. I can't see the need for ACL to make 
> syslogd a non-root daemon.
What about running syslogd with '-ss' commandline options?
IMHO it's a bit secure than default variant.

-- 
Best regards, Roman

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