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authorrwatson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>2001-09-01 21:00:28 +0000
committerrwatson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>2001-09-01 21:00:28 +0000
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o Note that some sites will want to select generally more conservative
permissions on some files, and give hints as to what those permissions might be. Note also that the current more liberal permissions might get changed in future revisions.
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# configuration file for newsyslog
# $FreeBSD$
#
+# Note: some sites will want to select more restrictive protections than the
+# defaults. In particular, it may be desirable to switch many of the 644
+# entries to 640 or 600. For example, some sites will consider the
+# contents of maillog, messages, and lpd-errs to be confidential. In the
+# future, these defaults may change to more conservative ones.
+#
# logfilename [owner:group] mode count size when [ZJB] [/pid_file] [sig_num]
/var/log/cron 600 3 100 * Z
/var/log/amd.log 644 7 100 * Z
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