How to anonymize logs before sharing?

2 years ago by ouch to c/linux

Many projects ask to share lots of logs when reporting issues. It's difficult to go through all the logs and redact informarion such as usernames, environment variabled etc.

Any ideas on how to anonymize logs before sharing? Change your username to something generic?

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QuazarOmega 13 points 2 years ago

A tool would actually be so good to have, it's such a common thing that we don't even think about it much. You sparked my curiosity so I tried to search if there was one and it seems there is a project out there: loganon, though it's long dead unfortunately

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Maeve -1 points 2 years ago

"boosted" this for visibility. Perhaps random devs will take interest.

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