On Monday 31 Oct 2011 12:33:14 Patrick Boutilier wrote: > On 10/31/2011 09:27 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: > > 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 > > Weird, you shouldn't even need to set a facl for /var/log/dmesg as other > already has read access via normal unix permissions. > > other::r-- > > > What are the rights on /var and /var/log ? > > getfacl /var > getfacl /var/log > [root@borg2 ~]# getfacl /var getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names # file: var # owner: root # group: root user::rwx group::r-x other::r-x [root@borg2 ~]# getfacl /var/log getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names # file: var/log # owner: root # group: root user::rwx user:anne:r-- group::r-x mask::r-x other::r-x 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
