On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 8:53 PM, Arno Gaboury <arnaud.gaboury@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear all, > > as I was configuring a conky window on my desktop, I decided to add some > precisions and tips for configuring the *.conkyrc* file in the Arch WIKI. > > Reading any /var/log file needs to be root, thus making difficult to run any > home config file with read access to log files. My turnaround is to > *$chown root:log /var/log* then *$usermod -aG log username*. > Security wise, I do not know if this can bring serious potential breach in > the system. If yes, please tell me as I will NOT let this turnaround in the > WIKI. > What would be a safer solution to read the log files in my conky window? How about using sudo without password required? It is possible to configure it to allow specific commands - maybe the user can have sudo access to read the relevant log files? -- mike c
