Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/02/27/14:38:25
Hi All...
It was fun while it lasted 8-)
Perhaps the permissions/owner for lastlog as a file should be
644/system.none
It works for me and protects the log a bit better.
Thanks,
...Karl
>From: Corinna Vinschen Subject: Re: ssh-host-config (/var/log/lastlog)
>Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:37:50 +0100
>
>On Feb 24 08:02, Karl M wrote:
> > Hi All...
> >
> > I set up lastlog as a directory and it works great 8-)
> >
> > In the case where ssh-host-config detects that /var/log/lastlog esists
>and
> > is a directory, it sets the permissions on the directory to 0777. It
>seems
> > like it should set the sticky-bit here (1777) to protect the individual
> > files in /var/log/lastlog.
>
>Hmm, yes, you're right. I'll change that in the script. However, while
>sshd works fine with a lastlog directory, it's not quite right to allow
>both variations (file/dir) on Cygwin.
>
>I don't know off-hand which applications make use of lastlog, but I'm
>pretty sure you'll end up with some problems. I just had a quick look
>and it seems that uucpd in inetutils uses a lastlog file and has no idea
>how to handle a lastlog directory...
>
>So, even if it works in sshd, you're moving on thin ice. You have been
>warned ;-)
>
>
>Corinna
>
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