Access rights for system logs

Till Maas opensource at till.name
Mon Feb 28 17:25:24 UTC 2011


On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 08:26:05PM +1030, Glen Turner wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 23:20 +0100, Till Maas wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 12:30:43PM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > 
> > > Were you thinking of just /var/log/messages? or all log files? 
> > > Or all syslog written files? or ?
> > > 
> > > If you are talking all log files, I would suggest making this into a
> > > feature for f16, since it's going to require coordinating a bunch of
> > > changes of packages to have the right group ownership of their log
> > > files. 
> > 
> > It is only required for log files that are not world-readable.
> ...
> 
> The existence of /var/log/secure suggests that the policy is not as
> simple as one group owning all file files.

To solve the current problem, it is as simple as this. If you want to
solve other problems, you should name them first.

Regards
Till
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