+ William Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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?
As you can see most of the files in /var/log have the permissions for root and the adm group set. [ bond : ~ ] ls -l /var/log/messages -rw-r----- 1 root adm 105000 Sep 2 01:19 /var/log/messages Adding a user to the root group is not a good idea. Ok, if it is your machine at home and you are the only user it could be ok. But I recommend you to add you to the groups you need access to: adduser <user> <group> Groups I belong to are: adm, cdrom, audio, dip and video. Kai. -- + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/~bond/
