[Bug 975199] Re: term.log is world readable and shouldn't be

[Marc Deslauriers]

@Mikko: because when you get a conf file handling dialog, one of the
options is to spawn a shell to manually correct the issue. That shell is
in the same terminal, hence in the same log file.

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Title:
  term.log is world readable and shouldn't be

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “apt” source package in Oneiric:
  Fix Released
Status in “apt” source package in Precise:
  Fix Released
Status in “apt” source package in Quantal:
  Fix Released
Status in “apt” source package in Raring:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  | root at dziban:/etc# ls -l /var/log/apt/term.log*
  | -rw-r--r-- 1 root adm 87718 Apr  6 10:33 /var/log/apt/term.log

  This file includes anything you type into a shell spawned via dpkg's
  conffile handling.  I don't expect my root shell sessions to be logged
  (keystrokes and all) to a world readable file and I imagine I'm not
  the only one.

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