Bug 1091

Summary:	autossh: sends messages to syslog
Product:	Sisyphus	Reporter:	imz <vanyaz>
Component:	autossh	Assignee:	Vitaly Chikunov <vt>
Status:	ASSIGNED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	minor
Priority:	P4	CC:	george, ldv, mike, vseleznv, vt
Version:	unstable
Hardware:	all
OS:	Linux

Description imz 2002-07-14 12:35:44 MSD

IMHO when autossh is invoked by a normal user, it should keep its messages private. Now it sends them to syslog, and so the administrator may track the users\' activity (this shouldn\'t be so by default), but the user himself cannot! (How can he read the syslog?)


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(Probably this is a stuipid way to use autossh, but it shows the bug.)

$ autossh -M20000 -f -N altair-t; sleep 1; sudo tail -2 /var/log/messages
Jul 14 12:10:35 arrakis autossh[18818]: starting ssh (count 1)
Jul 14 12:10:37 arrakis autossh[18818]: ssh exited prematurely with status 0; autossh exiting

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autossh-1.2a-alt1

Comment 1 Dmitry V. Levin 2002-07-15 17:36:58 MSD

AWAIU, autossh is designed for non-interactive use...

Comment 2 Dmitry V. Levin 2002-07-15 17:36:58 MSD

AWAIU, autossh is designed for non-interactive use...

Comment 3 imz 2002-07-16 00:06:31 MSD

I think, that is not the reason to log something to the syslog which the user himself is unable to read, but the administrator is able to. I don\'t want ALT Linux system to be a totalitarian system by default.

Comment 4 imz 2002-07-16 00:06:31 MSD

I think, that is not the reason to log something to the syslog which the user himself is unable to read, but the administrator is able to. I don\'t want ALT Linux system to be a totalitarian system by default.

Comment 5 Vitaly Lipatov 2006-02-12 19:13:28 MSK

Ситуация всё так же? 
Быть может тому, кто не хочет записи в системный лог о действиях 
неинтерактивной программы, достаточно указать в переменной 
AUTOSSH_LOGFILE куда писать лог?

Comment 6 Dmitry V. Levin 2006-02-12 19:17:57 MSK

Ситуация та же, надо спросить upstream, да всё не досуг.

Comment 7 Michael Shigorin 2010-10-09 19:36:07 MSD

(In reply to comment #4)
> I don't want ALT Linux system to be a totalitarian system by default.
Just wait for ART Linux. :}