[Logcheck-devel] Bug#598550: Perms on /etc/logcheck/*

[s. keeling]

Package: logcheck
Version: 1.2.69
Severity: wishlist

Hi.  Thanks for your efforts.

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drwxr-s--- 2 root logcheck 1024 2009-11-17 11:32 cracking.d/
drwxr-s--- 2 root logcheck 1024 2009-11-17 11:32 cracking.ignore.d/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root logcheck  188 2008-12-09 02:37 header.txt
drwxr-s--- 2 root logcheck 1024 2010-06-23 12:21 ignore.d.paranoid/
drwxr-s--- 2 root logcheck 3072 2010-06-23 12:21 ignore.d.server/
drwxr-s--- 2 root logcheck 1024 2010-06-23 12:21 ignore.d.workstation/
-rw-r----- 1 root logcheck 2580 2010-07-01 22:08 logcheck.conf
-rw-r----- 1 root root     2581 2009-11-22 08:02 logcheck.conf~
-rw-r----- 1 root logcheck  131 2009-02-11 04:57 logcheck.logfiles
drwxr-s--- 2 root logcheck 1024 2009-11-17 11:32 violations.d/
drwxr-s--- 2 root logcheck 2048 2009-11-17 11:32 violations.ignore.d/
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I'm primary user on this box:

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(0) infidel /home/keeling_ id
uid=1000(keeling) gid=1000(keeling)
groups=4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),25(floppy),29(audio),44(video),46(plugdev),50(staff),108(netdev),1000(keeling)
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As member of adm, I can read /etc/log/messages, et al.  However, I'm not
allowed to view /etc/logcheck/logcheck.conf, yet I'm the one logcheck is
sending reports to.  Uh, ...  Should I add keeling to group logcheck?
What's the downside?

Again, thanks.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.6
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-bpo.5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages logcheck depends on:
ii  adduser            3.110                 add and remove users and groups
ii  bsd-mailx [mailx]  8.1.2-0.20071201cvs-3 A simple mail user agent
ii  cron               3.0pl1-105            management of regular background p
ii  lockfile-progs     0.1.11-0.1            Programs for locking and unlocking
ii  logtail            1.2.69                Print log file lines that have not
ii  mailx              1:20071201-3          Transitional package for mailx ren
ii  postfix [mail-tran 2.5.5-1.1             High-performance mail transport ag
ii  rsyslog [system-lo 3.18.6-4              enhanced multi-threaded syslogd

Versions of packages logcheck recommends:
ii  logcheck-database             1.2.69     database of system log rules for t

Versions of packages logcheck suggests:
pn  syslog-summary                <none>     (no description available)

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