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Allow non-root to view system logs?
This is a discussion on Allow non-root to view system logs? within the Networking, Firewalls and Security forums, part of the Mastering Servers category; Is there a way to give just view permissions to non-root users to the system logs? I have web developers ...
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11-19-2008, 08:11 PM
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Allow non-root to view system logs?
Is there a way to give just view permissions to non-root users to the system logs? I have web developers who want to view the logs but I don't want them to have the ability to change them.
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11-19-2008, 10:45 PM
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Use sudo to give access. For example give tom user permission to view /var/log/scripts.log file
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tom localhost=/bin/grep /var/log/scripts.log Code:
sudo /bin/grep /var/log/scripts.log See Allow a normal user to run commands as root under Linux / UNIX operating systems
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11-20-2008, 01:41 AM
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Thank you for the reply, Hadn’t even thought of the tail command, was using vi with sudo.
Are there other viewers available that could be used to scroll thru the entire log?
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11-21-2008, 12:59 AM
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less is much better and works great. It has search and other useful options:
Code:
man less
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