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
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