Re: Sudo and limited rights

On 10/31/2011 07:33 AM, Anne Wilson wrote:

I'm fed up of having to be root to read log files when troubleshooting. I'd like to add a sudo line that gives me read-only rights to /var/log/ - is this possible? I've not found any example of limted rights like that - and I don't want to allow write access to anyone other than root.

Anne

Not really a KDE issue, but facl should work. $user will be your userid.

setfacl -R -m u:$user:r /var/log/

This one will give you access to newly created logs files without having to run the above again.

setfacl -d -R -m u:$user:r /var/log/