Thursday, March 13, 2014

[wqzmdlph] Getting the logs off the server

A key to security seems to be to get the access logs (e.g., /var/log) off the server so that a root compromise cannot cover tracks by deleting them.  No one does this by default, but it ought to be made more easy.

Ideally, get it onto write-once media, or a separate server which requires physical access to compromise.

Can CD-R CDROMs be used to append data which might only come in a few bytes at a time?  We would like to avoid the megabytes of overhead of multisession.

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