Bug#291825: exim4-base: /var/log/exim4 permissions

[Marc Haber]

severity #291825 wishlist
tags #291825 wontfix
thanks

On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 12:54:43AM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote:
> Debian policy[1], recommend directories have permissions of either 755
> or 2755. The /var/log/exim4 directories do not.

Feature. The log might contain confidenial data.

> This makes is
> cumbersome do a command such as 'sudo zgrep postini
> /var/log/exim4/*.[0-9].gz'.

Add yourself to the adm group. Grepping logs as root is generally not
a good idea.

Greetings
Marc

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