Re: FYI - Interim report on IETF46 BOF on syslog[was Fwd: Syslog

[Chris Calabrese]

Balazs Scheidler wrote:

 > What if syslog client processes should authenticate themselves before
 > allowed to send log messages. Authentication tokens could then be stored in
 > a local file with appropriate permissions, and the same /dev/log socket can
 > be used. (since each different facility (or facility set) would have
 > different authentication token)

This seems more complex than having /dev/log/<facility> and offers no improvement in
security that I can see.

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Chris Calabrese
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