Sudo and limited rights

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 31 Oct 2011 12:25:37 Colin J Thomson wrote:
> On Monday 31 Oct 2011 12:16:03 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.
> > >
> > > 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.
> 
> Have you tried KSystemlog Anne, its part of kdeadmin
> 
I had forgotten about that, but...

"The file '/var/log/syslog' doesn't exist - and it doesn't of course.

Anne
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