Re: shishid: Usage of syslog facilities.

[Simon Josefsson]

Eray Aslan <address@hidden> writes:

> On 08/15/2012 08:46 PM, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>> However, I wonder what MIT/Heimdal does, or
>> what other servers do, like sshd?
>
> MIT/Heimdal default to using LOG_AUTH for syslog.  sshd also uses
> LOG_AUTH afaik.
>
>> On systems I'm
>> familiar with, reading the syslog requires the same privileges as
>> reading the authlog
>
> Usually but not always.  Use LOG_AUTH and let the sysadmin decide?

So should we use LOG_AUTH for all messages from shishid, then?  That
sounds the most logical to me.  Everything shishid does is
authentication related.

/Simon