[log4perl-devel] Masking secrets in log4perl output

2010-02-02 Thread Maciej Grela
Hi, When using log4perl recently in one of my Web-automation scripts I asked myself the following question: Is it possible to use the log4perl appenders, layouts etc. to mask secret values (passwords) from the log files generated by log4perl ? For example, I routinely use log4perl to dump the

Re: [log4perl-devel] Masking secrets in log4perl output

2010-02-02 Thread Mike Schilli
On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, Maciej Grela wrote: Is it possible to use the log4perl appenders, layouts etc. to mask secret values (passwords) from the log files generated by log4perl ? The best way to avoid passwords in the logs is to avoid logging them in the first place. If you're writing the