[ILUG] quick Debian question
[ILUG] quick Debian question
Cian Cullinan
cian at medialabeurope.org
Tue Apr 27 13:24:40 IST 2004
On Tuesday 27 April 2004 13:08, Niall O Broin wrote:
: On Tuesday 27 April 2004, brendan.halpin at ul.ie (Brendan Halpin) wrote:
: >Cian rather tersely gave the best solution earlier: if you're a
: >user who needs to read logs etc., put yourself in the adm group.
: >This seems to be used to give read access in lots of places.
:
: Perhaps terse, but definitely wrong, given the original question. No
: amount of adding yourself to groups will let you read files with
: permissions of 600.
:
:
:
Yes definitely wrong, sorry for that. Didn't stop and think about the whole
600 thing. In my defense on my box (Debian testing) a lot of the log files
belong to group adm and all of the others are world readable. This was
default.
reflexion at fee :/var/log$ ls -l
total 2872
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49425 Apr 27 13:13 XFree86.0.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29551 Apr 26 15:27 XFree86.0.log.old
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 50941 Apr 27 13:17 auth.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 150125 Apr 25 06:47 auth.log.0
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 5834 Apr 11 06:47 auth.log.1.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 3840 Apr 26 10:41 btmp
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 1322 Apr 26 12:25 daemon.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 171020 Apr 24 16:35 daemon.log.0
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 1550 Apr 10 15:54 daemon.log.1.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 26665 Apr 27 12:50 debug
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 150317 Apr 23 15:35 debug.0
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 2437 Apr 10 15:54 debug.1.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11621 Apr 26 12:25 dmesg
drwxr-s--- 2 mail adm 4096 Apr 27 06:25 exim
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24024 Apr 8 13:53 faillog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 931 Apr 8 13:59 fontconfig.log
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 8 16:59 gdm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 328585 Apr 8 13:17 installer.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33375 Apr 8 13:17 installer.timings
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 148327 Apr 27 12:50 kern.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 319605 Apr 23 15:36 kern.log.0
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 32316 Apr 10 16:49 kern.log.1.gz
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 8 13:55 ksymoops
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 292292 Apr 27 13:16 lastlog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 25 06:47 lp-acct
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 11 06:47 lp-acct.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30 Apr 8 13:15 lp-acct.1.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 25 06:47 lp-errs
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 11 06:47 lp-errs.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30 Apr 8 13:15 lp-errs.1.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 0 Apr 25 06:47 lpr.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 161 Apr 25 06:47 lpr.log.0
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 302 Apr 11 06:47 lpr.log.1.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 8 13:55 mail.err
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 8 13:55 mail.info
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 8 13:55 mail.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 8 13:55 mail.warn
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 130866 Apr 27 13:05 messages
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 194596 Apr 25 06:47 messages.0
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 32479 Apr 11 06:47 messages.1.gz
drwxr-sr-x 2 news news 4096 Apr 8 13:55 news
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 25 06:25 scrollkeeper.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 24 06:25 scrollkeeper.log.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 11 06:25 scrollkeeper.log.2
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 31717 Apr 27 13:17 syslog
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 145256 Apr 27 06:25 syslog.0
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 1643 Apr 26 06:25 syslog.1.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 1233 Apr 25 06:25 syslog.2.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 31557 Apr 24 06:25 syslog.3.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 4759 Apr 16 06:25 syslog.4.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 7779 Apr 15 06:25 syslog.5.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 4709 Apr 14 06:25 syslog.6.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 5145 Apr 26 15:28 user.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 7987 Apr 23 19:16 user.log.0
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 1458 Apr 10 15:54 user.log.1.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 8 13:55 uucp.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 647040 Apr 27 13:16 wtmp
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