On 10/31/2011 09:40 AM, Anne Wilson wrote:
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
Weird. Directories have rx for "other" and the the file has r for
"other". Anybody should be able to read /var/log/dmesg.
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