Reading System Logs

Another security irritant is reading system logs. Home users and many small business users do not need anal security with respect to reading logs. On such systems there are no clever or deep hidden secrets.

During booting I use a simple script in rc.local to ensure I can read my logs without root privileges. The script does nothing more than run chmod 644 on the following logs:

    critical*
    cron*
    debug*
    dmesg
    dnsmasq*
    emergency*
    errors*
    faillog*
    kernel*
    lastlog*
    mail.*
    messages*
    pm-powersave.log
    pm-suspend.log
    rkhunter.log*
    rsnapshot*
    smartd*
    spooler*
    sshd*
    syslog*
    vboxweb/*
    vnstat.log*

Done.

Posted: March 20, 2017 Category: Usability Tagged: General

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