On 04/12/2007, Lars Noodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm noticing that the messages log seems to be world readable in 4.2 > e.g. > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1801 Dec 4 17:51 messages > > What's up with that? Shouldn't it be set to 640? If not what is the > rationale for 644?
It has been like this for a very long time, since 2002-11 and OpenBSD 3.3. http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/etc/newsyslog.conf#rev1.20 Cheers, Constantine.
