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From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#40405: System log files are world readable
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2020 09:30:29 +0200
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To: Bengt Richter <bokr@bokr.com>
Cc: 40405@debbugs.gnu.org, Diego Nicola Barbato <dnbarbato@posteo.de>

Hi,

Bengt Richter <bokr@bokr.com> skribis:

> On +2020-04-07 00:07:14 +0200, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote:
>> Hi,
>>=20
>> Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> skribis:
>>=20
>> > In the meantime, the patch below fixes the syslogd problem.  Also
>> > attached is a patch for the accounting database, though that one is
>> > questionable.
>>=20
>> I pushed the syslog bits along with a test as commit
>> d7113bb655ff80a868a9e624c913f9d23e6c63ad.  (I think already
>> world-readable files will remain world-readable though?)
>>
>
> Could build daemons do some kind of maintenance rebuild to chmod them?
> And maybe be scheduled to monitor new files for other mistakes as well?

Yes, we could do that, I just haven=E2=80=99t checked if this is necessary =
or
thought about how to do it.

> Meanwhile, could a superuser chmod them without affecting hashes?

Definitely.  (There=E2=80=99s no =E2=80=9Chashing=E2=80=9D involved for /va=
r/log.)

Ludo=E2=80=99.