Yesterday, I came across an Apple knowledge base article
(http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4272) that appeared to me to state that under
certain circumstances, passwords might be stored in clear text in some log
files. So I started thinking about a command line that might be used to
return a list of log files, compressed or not, that might contain a unique,
exact fragment of a password.

To test my script, I found a file (/private/var/log/AppleJack.log.0.bz)
that, when I decompressed and opened it in TextWrangler, appeared to contain
the string "8CFCE322A9CB".

Why isn't "/var/log/AppleJack.log.0.bz" returned in the results of  the
following terminal command on my system? What terminal command could I use
instead to search for "8CFCE322A9CB" in text or .bz files in
/private/var/log that would include "/var/log/AppleJack.log.0.bz" in its
results?

sudo find /private/var/log -exec bzgrep -q "8CFCE322A9CB" '{}' \; -print

Thanks.

Laine Lee