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Demetrios Dimatos commented on LOG4J2-1699: ------------------------------------------- That is exactly what i was thinking. I would allow for the properties to be set for the file appender so that when a new log file is created these file permissions are honored. > Configurable Log File Permissions > --------------------------------- > > Key: LOG4J2-1699 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1699 > Project: Log4j 2 > Issue Type: Question > Components: Appenders > Environment: Linux > Reporter: Demetrios Dimatos > Priority: Critical > Labels: features > Fix For: 2.8 > > Original Estimate: 336h > Remaining Estimate: 336h > > We would like to hear the communities thoughts on being able to configure the > permissions log files are created with. We don't want to rely on UMASK > because we have managed services who's process should generate logs with a > 644 yet deployed applications by users should default to a 640 because the > logs may contain sensitive information. > We will make the modification and set this in the properties file. Now we are > looking to see what the community position would be on accepting such a > patch, we don't want to be patching our own distribution indefinitely. > I searched all the JIRAs and was not able to find any matching requirements > recently. All I could find was something dated in 2006: > https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=40407 -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: log4j-dev-unsubscr...@logging.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: log4j-dev-h...@logging.apache.org