Logging passwords in the news.log

Forrest Aldrich forrie at forrie.com
Wed Sep 15 18:14:56 UTC 2004


I've had the news server running for a few days - suddenly today, it's 
recording authinfo in the news.log, and I didn't configure it to do this:

Sep 15 11:15:31 duinn nnrpd[70752]: forrie.ne.client2.attbi.com < 
AUTHINFO user forrie
Sep 15 11:15:31 duinn nnrpd[70752]: forrie.ne.client2.attbi.com > 381 
PASS required
Sep 15 11:15:34 duinn nnrpd[70752]: forrie.ne.client2.attbi.com < 
AUTHINFO pass myrealpassword

How did this happen, and how can I disable this behavior.


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