Now that you mention it, I find this irritating as well. I guess it is time to
figure out sudo. From what I have read on this list you can set up pretty fine
grained permisions on what can be run by users. I think then it would be
something like
sudo tail /var/log/messages
I'm sure one of the kind gurus will be willing to let us know if I am off base
here. I don't want to open the logs since I suspect that reading them would
help a cracker get into my systems.
Bret
Mike Lewis wrote:
> The default perms on /var/log/messages are:
>
> -rw------- 1 root root 162393 Jan 30 19:58 /var/log/messages
> -rw------- 1 root root 4198458 Jan 30 04:02 /var/log/messages.1
> -rw------- 1 root root 612433 Jan 23 03:40 /var/log/messages.2
>
> What would be the security implications of changing the perms to 644 ? What
> I'd like to do is tail my log without having to su. Is there a better way ?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
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