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Message-ID: <20110307125419.GA12931@nowster.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 12:54:19 +0000
From: Paul Martin <pm@...ian.org>
To: Jan Kaluža <jkaluza@...hat.com>
Cc: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com,
"Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>,
Stefan Fritsch <sf@...itsch.de>, Florian Zumbiehl <florz@...rz.de>,
Petr Uzel <petr.uzel@...e.cz>, Thomas Biege <thomas@...e.de>
Subject: Re: CVE Request -- logrotate -- nine issues
On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 01:21:05PM +0100, Jan Kaluža wrote:
> I think logrotate should skip rotation of files in unsafe
> directories and show error message instead. Logrotate should also
> contain something like "--force" switch (this name is already used,
> so we have to find better one, but I don't have anything better in
> mind just now). With this switch logrotate should *not* skip unsafe
> directories and rotate them as it currently does, but show the error
> message. Basically it allows backward compatibility.
"--override-unsafe-directory-check" perhaps? Make it a long option,
so that there is no doubt that the user is doing something that's
potentially dangerous.
(I am following this discussion with great interest.)
--
Paul Martin <pm@...ian.org>
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