Re: Sudo and limited rights

On Monday 31 Oct 2011 10:40:12 Patrick Boutilier wrote:

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

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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/

Thanks. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work - kwrite still shows an empty file even though I can see the size of it indicating that it is quite big.

Anne