Re: SunOS newsyslog bug
Kenneth Kron - (Kenneth.Kron@EBay.Sun.COM)
Fri, 26 Aug 1994 11:44:56 -0700
Not on 2.4 FCS. I'm filling the bug right now.
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Kenneth Kron -- Network Security Group
kron@aiki.ebay.sun.com
Perhaps the world is a banquet.
Everyone is an invited guest but eventually you're on the menu
> From bugtraq-owner@fc.net Fri Aug 26 07:19 PDT 1994
> From: Jean.Chouanard@xerox.fr (Jean Chouanard)
> To: bugtraq@crimelab.com
> Subject: SunOS newsyslog bug
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> I was surprise to see that in SunOS (4.1.3 and U1) the command
> /usr/lib/newsyslog do a 'chmod 666' on the $LOG (= syslog) file he just
> created.
> Thus, after running newsyslog, which is done in the crontab,
> the new log files is writable by everybody :-(
>
> Does this chmod has been corrected by Sun?
>
> jean.
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