On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 02:05:47PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: > Greetings Debians, > > I'd like to give access to the directory /var/log/messages to my user > account so I can watch what messages are being displayed there. I'd > do this with tail -f /var/log/messages. Problem is my user accnt has > no permissions on that directory. I could change the permissions on > the directory itself but then any other user can look into that data > and I'd rather not have that. Therefore is it wise policy to add my > user account to the 'root' group? Would that solve the problem while > maintaining system security? Or is there a better way of achieving > this? And how would I go about adding myself to the root > group...modify /etc/group?
Methinks, $ adduser <your username> adm will do the trick. Not too sure if it doesn't give too much away. Alot of things seem to have read priveledges for the adm group (/dev/xconsole, /var/log/messages, ...). I guess this is the purpose of this group. Wouldn't add just anyone to it. -- /bin/sh ~/.signature: Command not found
