OT: allow ordinary user to read /var/log/audit/audit.log

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at gmail.com
Sun Jun 12 00:14:33 UTC 2011


On 6/9/11 10:58 AM, Hiisi wrote:
> On 9 June 2011 19:45, James McKenzie<jjmckenzie51 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On 6/9/11, Hiisi<hiisi at fedoraproject.org>  wrote:
> <--SNIP-->
>> What group owns the log file.  It may be as simple as adding the group
>> to the sudoers file with the /var/log directory.
> Thanks, James, but it's owned by root:root. I don't want to add him to
> the root group. Neither want I to change it to root:hospes.
> Any other suggestions?
You could always make the file world-read.  That means EVERYONE can read 
the file.  You just don't have to tell them....

James



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