Sudo and limited rights

[Patrick Boutilier]

On 10/31/2011 09:43 AM, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 31 Oct 2011 12:27:56 Thomas Moschny wrote:
>> 2011/10/31 Patrick Boutilier<boutilpj at ednet.ns.ca>:
>>> [...]
>>> setfacl -R -m u:$user:r /var/log/
>>> setfacl -d -R -m u:$user:r /var/log/
>>
>> You also need to set x bits (note capital X):
>> setfacl -R -m u:$user:rX /var/log/
>> setfacl -d -R -m u:$user:rX /var/log/
>>
> [root at borg2 ~]# setfacl -R -m u:anne:rX /var/log/
> [root at borg2 ~]# setfacl -d -R -m u:anne:rX /var/log/
> [root at borg2 ~]#>  tail /var/log/dmesg
> -bash: /var/log/dmesg: Permission denied
>
> Hmm - am I missing something?
>
> Anne

As root what does ls -l /var/log/dmesg show?
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