Am 17.07.2013 16:46, schrieb Suvayu Ali: > On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 10:35:46PM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 07/17/13 22:27, Timothy Murphy wrote: >>> Ed Greshko wrote: >>>> Heck, you could always make your sudo password less and you could always >>>> assign the frequently used commands aliases. >>> I guess my question should have been: >>> Will it cause any problems if I change the permissions on these files? >>> Is there any program that won't work if you do this, >>> as is true eg of some .ssh and pki files? >>> >> But why bother? You can't be assured that some update or process won't go about changing them back on you. Then, you'll be scratching your head again. >> >> Does the cron job to roll log files reset things? Don't know...and I don't want to care. >> >> I prefer solutions that don't require changing things over which you don't or may not have absolute control. > > Your permission changes will be overwritten the moment a daemon sends a > message to syslog *no they are not* otherwise my /var/log/maillog on my workstation would not have 644 > AFAIU, the reason the logs are owned by root is because it is written by > syslog (which runs as root). The motivation I think is, the logs should > remain untampered if your system is compromised how does chmod 644 affect *write* permissions?
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