[1677] in NetBSD-Development
Re: logging to wslogger
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman)
Thu Apr 30 14:14:28 1998
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>, sipb-athena@MIT.EDU
From: Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>
Date: 30 Apr 1998 14:14:11 -0400
In-Reply-To: Greg Hudson's message of Thu, 30 Apr 1998 14:03:04 EDT
>>>>> "Greg" == Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
Greg> SIPB isn't tracking your install. ops already has a
Greg> bazillion ways of tracking your install (Kerberos logs and
Greg> Hesiod queries come to mind). source-sipb is trying to
Greg> construct a platform as close to the Athena platform as
Greg> possible; I don't see why a SIPB-Athena machine needs to be
Greg> any different from a private Athena workstation in terms of
Greg> the privacy considerations of syslog.conf.
OK, now I understand where you are coming from. It is my
belief that SIPB has in general treated user privacy as a higher
priority than ops/Athena. It is my belief that externally logging
things without asking for permission from the user violates this
implicit trust. I also believe that SIPB should continue treating
privacy as a high priority, and believe that the change is worth the
minor delta from the main Athena tree.
Ops does not provide support for SIPB-Athena machines, unlike
private Athena workstations. Thus, I think the justification is
significantly less.
