Sudo and limited rights

[Anne Wilson]

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?
> 
> 
> 
> Does this work from a prompt?
> 
> tail /var/log/<file>
> 
confession - this is on my server, CentOS

Anne
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