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From: Bengt Richter <bokr@bokr.com>
Subject: bug#40405: System log files are world readable
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2020 02:49:58 +0200
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To: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 40405@debbugs.gnu.org, Diego Nicola Barbato <dnbarbato@posteo.de>

Hi Ludo,

On +2020-04-07 00:07:14 +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> skribis:
> 
> > In the meantime, the patch below fixes the syslogd problem.  Also
> > attached is a patch for the accounting database, though that one is
> > questionable.
> 
> 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?

Meanwhile, could a superuser chmod them without affecting hashes?
(curious as to whether permission bits escape hashing).

> The main remaining issue here is log files created by
> ‘fork+exec-command’.  We’ll have to address that in the Shepherd proper,
> I think.
> 
> Ludo’.
> 
> 
> 

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Regards,
Bengt Richter