[systemd-devel] how to encrypt journalctl metadata

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 17.08.16 13:02, Divya Thaluru (divya.thaluru at gmail.com) wrote:

> Thanks Mantas!!! In my case, metadata "cmdline" had sensitive information
> which I am not intended to store. Is there any way to disable collecting
> metadata?

If your cmdline field contains sensitive information then you really
should work on that and not include the sensitive information
there. The cmdline field is generally exposed to user users, and hence
unsafe for passwords and suchlike, regardless if you use the journal
or not.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat