Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> The socket is world writable, glibc's syslog() function writes
> to it, from any program.  Restricting its write access to root
> would effectively disable syslogging.

yeah, i kinda gathered that..  That' why what i am proposing is --

Keep the current behavior, but log just one additional info ---> who
it is that wrote via syslog---so later the sysadmin can tell which is
a legit. message and which is not.

[But dunno, you guys know much better than this newbie :-) ]


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