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
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