On Monday 31 Oct 2011 12:21:10 Patrick Boutilier wrote: > On 10/31/2011 09:16 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Monday 31 Oct 2011 10:40:12 Patrick Boutilier wrote: > >> On 10/31/2011 07:33 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: > >>> I'm fed up of having to be root to read log files when troubleshooting. > >>> I'd like to add a sudo line that gives me read-only rights to /var/log/ > >>> - is this possible? I've not found any example of limted rights like > >>> that - and I don't want to allow write access to anyone other than > >>> root. > >>> > >>> Anne > >> > >> Not really a KDE issue, but facl should work. $user will be your userid. > >> > >> setfacl -R -m u:$user:r /var/log/ > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> This one will give you access to newly created logs files without having > >> to run the above again. > >> > >> > >> setfacl -d -R -m u:$user:r /var/log/ > > > > Thanks. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work - kwrite still shows an > > empty file even though I can see the size of it indicating that it is > > quite big. > > > > Anne > > Which file in /var/log/ ? > > What does getfacl /var/log/<file> show? > # file: var/log/dmesg # owner: root # group: root user::rw- user:anne:r-- group::r-- mask::r-- other::r-- > > Does this work from a prompt? > > tail /var/log/<file> > tail /var/log/dmesg -bash: /var/log/dmesg: Permission denied Anne -- New to KDE Software? Got some good hints and tips? - Welcome to http://userbase.kde.org _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
