Platforms

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Abstract

Debug setting to display passwords in LISTSERV's log file


Example

z/VM:

DEBUG_LOG_PW = 1

Unix:

DEBUG_LOG_PW=1

export DEBUG_LOG_PW

Windows:

DEBUG_LOG_PW=1


Details

To prevent unintentional password disclosure when e-mailing logs for troubleshooting purposes, LISTSERV suppresses all passwords in its logs.  Passwords are replaced with the text "[redacted]". This applies not only to the PW= keyword, but to the PW and PWC commands, and the internal X-PWADD command used by the web interface.

As it is recognized that sometimes passwords need to be seen for debugging purposes, especially on development servers, this debugging option has been added to override the default behavior.

WARNING:  When this debugging setting is enabled (set to 1), passwords will be written to the LISTSERV console log in plain text, and will not be redacted from the log as is the normal default setting.  Therefore, L-Soft strongly recommends that password debugging SHOULD NOT be left enabled for long periods, but used only when debugging specific problems related to a user's password.


Default Value

The default is 0, that is, replace passwords in the log with "[redacted]"