Sudo and limited rights

[Patrick Boutilier]

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/
>>
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>> This one will give you access to newly created logs files without having
>> to run the above again.
>>
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>> 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?



Does this work from a prompt?

tail /var/log/<file>
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