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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] logrotate: /var/log/portage/elog "insecure permissions"?
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 23:08:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110805230838.315417e1@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E3C1344.5010903@binarywings.net>

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On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 17:59:00 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote:

> Yes, this was introduced in 3.8.0 to fix security issues [1]. Change
> your config to look like this:
> /var/log/portage/elog/summary.log {
> su portage portage
> ...
> }
> 
> Disclaimer: I've not really tried this (yet) but I think I'm able to
> read changelogs and man-pages. ;-)

Yes that fixes it. The latest portage ebuilds include an updated config
file.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

There's no such thing as a free lunch
                              ___Steve Ballmer, choking on a linuxburger

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-05 22:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-05 15:22 [gentoo-user] logrotate: /var/log/portage/elog "insecure permissions"? Jarry
2011-08-05 15:59 ` Florian Philipp
2011-08-05 22:08   ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2011-08-07  0:22     ` Mick
2011-08-07 15:20       ` Florian Philipp
2011-08-09 20:13         ` Mick
2011-08-28 11:14         ` Mick
2011-08-28 18:44           ` Florian Philipp
2011-08-29 13:42             ` Florian Philipp

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