What are reasonable blockers for making journald the default logger in F19?

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Wed Oct 17 21:26:40 UTC 2012


On Wed, 2012-10-17 at 14:52 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:

> > To my knowledge AUTHPRIV is simply for authorization-related data, not
> > for the seccret auth tokens themselves. The Linux man page suggests that
> > AUTH is obsolete, and AUTHPRIV is what people should use for all auth
> > related stuff. And if things get specific this is mostly about "user
> > logged in", "user changed password", but never "user changed password
> > to xyz".
> 
> Sigh, I guess I need to be more explicit, you can find messages like:
> 
> User MySecretPassword failed authentication.
> 
> Because mistakenly a user typed his password at the login prompt instead
> of his name. It is common.

As an anecdata point, I've done this on websites twice in the last two
days. So I'm inclined to believe Simo :)
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