From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1H2GHm-0000Kc-2q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 00:16:46 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l040F9Vi028902; Thu, 4 Jan 2007 00:15:09 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l040B8i3007960 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2007 00:11:08 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 549BE646DF for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2007 00:11:07 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -1.164 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.164 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.065, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=1.5] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Hg5AC75rKh9v for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2007 00:10:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A68964815 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2007 00:10:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1H2GBG-0004kE-8N for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 01:10:02 +0100 Received: from 82.152.202.104 ([82.152.202.104]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 01:10:02 +0100 Received: from slong by 82.152.202.104 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 01:10:02 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Steve Long Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [rfc] transition system loggers to 'adm' user/group Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 00:09:26 +0000 Message-ID: References: <200701010429.51173.vapier@gentoo.org> <4599490F.1040306@gentoo.org> <200701012139.32557.vapier@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.152.202.104 User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 04860ee8-d3fb-4ff0-8e43-4c55f38bed39 X-Archives-Hash: c3d8830590c079ee4baa12329ac4bf5c Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Monday 01 January 2007 12:46, Mike Doty wrote: >> Mike Frysinger wrote: >> > how do people feel about transitioning the Gentoo standard system >> > logger >> > from running as root/root to adm/adm ? the latest version of sysklogd >> > includes some patches so that it can run as non-root and a user >> > requested we make this the default ... however, i certainly dont want >> > to start adding a different user/group for each system logger cause >> > that's wicked lame >> >> does syslog-ng and metalog have similar functionality? > > maybe, but no one has this as the default behavior, so ... > -mike Yeah, but it's still a good idea, as others have discussed. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list