This is not an unusual requirement. I've been at a company that tries to
scrub log files from certain patterns (like SSN #s). Can that be done in
log4j? I don't know. It would be interesting to know if 2.0 had some sort
of filtering capability. Remko? Gary? Ralph?
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Saibabu Vallurupalli <
saibabu.vallurupa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So, we wanted to inspect the message which is getting logged out to avoid
> possible security issues. So, what exactly I am looking is If I wanted to
> add a restriction on whats been logged. How can I achieve this?
>
> For example: log.info("user name"+username+"Password"+password); // This
> is just an example if I see a message having password do not log it or take
> some action.
>
> Please advise.
>
> Thank you,
> Sai
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Remko Popma <remko.po...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Sorry, but I have no idea what you mean by "neutralize out".
>> What is currently happening and what would you like to happen instead?
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> > On 2014/01/22, at 6:29, Saibabu Vallurupalli <
>> saibabu.vallurupa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I am working on an issue related to logging. I our application we are
>> using log4j for logging and we detected our software doesn't neutralize out
>> properly. Now, Is there any way without modifying the entire source by
>> going through each and every class we can achieve this functionality of
>> inspecting the message getting logged and take appropriate action.
>> >
>> > We appreciate your support.
>> >
>> > Thank you,
>> > Sai
>> >
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