Hello,
we want to create a new user with access to the logs of a sles11sp3 machine.
the log files in /var/log all belong to root:root so standard users cannot read them
is there any way to create a non-root user to provide access to the logs?
thx,
hugo
[QUOTE=susehoush;28234]Hello,
we want to create a new user with access to the logs of a sles11sp3 machine.
the log files in /var/log all belong to root:root so standard users cannot read them
is there any way to create a non-root user to provide access to the logs?
[/QUOTE]
If you want all non-root users to have access to the logs simply add global read on everything in /var/log/
If you want only a specific non-root user to have access you could use access control lists. E.g. to give user mike read access to everything in /var/log (-R is recursive)
[CODE]$ linux-pgyf:~ # getfacl /var/log/messages
getfacl: Removing leading ‘/’ from absolute path names
user::rw-
group::r–
other::—
$ linux-pgyf:~ # setfacl -R -m u:mike:-r /var/log/
linux-pgyf:~ # getfacl /var/log/messages
getfacl: Removing leading ‘/’ from absolute path names
user::rw-
user:mike:r–
group::r–
mask::r–
other::—
linux-pgyf:~ #[/CODE]