F20 System Wide Change: No Default Syslog

[M A Young]

On Wed, 17 Jul 2013, Eric Smith wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 8:39 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"
> <johannbg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Allowing editing of log files is a pure security risk...
>
> So is giving a sysadmin the root password, but we do it.
>
> I generally make a copy of a log file and edit the copy, but I'd
> oppose anything that took away the ability for log files to be edited.

Another reason why you might to edit the journal is when you have to keep 
logs for a precise time for regulatory reasons. This isn't a problem
under the classic logging and rotation.

 	Michael Young