This removes lines containing passwordAsUTF8String in /var/log/secure.log*

99-filtersecuredebug.sh

#!/bin/bash
#
# This removes lines containing passwordAsUTF8String in /var/log/secure.log*


templog=`mktemp -t securelog`

for logfile in /var/log/secure.log*; do
    echo "Filtering passwords from $logfile"
    if [ ${logfile##*.} == "bz2" ]; then
        bzcat "$logfile" | grep -v passwordAsUTF > "$templog"
        bzip2 -c "$templog" > "$logfile"
    elif [ ${logfile##*.} == "gz" ]; then
        gzcat "$logfile" | grep -v passwordAsUTF > "$templog"
        gzip -c "$templog" > "$logfile"
    else
        grep -v passwordAsUTF "$logfile" > "$templog"
        cat "$templog" > /var/log/secure.log
    fi
done

rm -f "$templog"

exit 0