Subject: bug#40405: System log files are world readable

From: Diego Nicola Barbato <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2020 15:34:17 +0200

Diego Nicola Barbato <[email-masked]> writes:

> Hey Guix,
>
> On Guix System the log files (in /var/log) generated by syslogd are
> currently (commit 151f3d4) world readable.  They should probably only be
> readable by root (for the same reason that dmesg can only be run by
> root).
>
> It isn't possible to set the umask with fork-exec-constructor, is it?
                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That should be 'make-forkexec-constructor'.  Sorry for the noise.

> Otherwise that might have been a simple solution.
>
> Regards,
>
> Diego