Re: /dev/urandom | logger "issue"

[Kev <klmitch () MIT EDU>]

> > Even if you added user logging when the logger program is run, what
> > keeps someone from opening /dev/log and forging thier messages that way?
>
> I'm not 100% on how syslog works. Does a daemon write to /dev/log or to a
> unix socket to log?

<kosh> Yes. </kosh>

Seriously, /dev/log usually is a UNIX socket.
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Kevin L. Mitchell <klmitch () mit edu>