From: Doug Goldstein <cardoe@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] transition system loggers to 'adm' user/group
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2007 11:59:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45993DFE.90304@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200701011628.28219@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org>
Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> On Monday 01 January 2007 10:29, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> how do people feel about transitioning the Gentoo standard system logger
>> from running as root/root to adm/adm ? the latest version of sysklogd
>> includes some patches so that it can run as non-root and a user requested
>> we make this the default ... however, i certainly dont want to start adding
>> a different user/group for each system logger cause that's wicked lame
> It would be really nice, especially if the adm group could be used to be able
> to read the logs without using root login :)
>
Awesome idea Mike. And allowing people to read the logs if they were in
the adm group would be perfect too.
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-01 9:29 [gentoo-dev] [rfc] transition system loggers to 'adm' user/group Mike Frysinger
2007-01-01 15:28 ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2007-01-01 15:36 ` [gentoo-dev] " Markus Ullmann
2007-01-01 16:59 ` Doug Goldstein [this message]
2007-01-01 18:38 ` [gentoo-dev] " Petteri Räty
2007-01-01 18:58 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ryan Hill
2007-01-01 19:14 ` [gentoo-dev] " Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2007-01-01 19:24 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-01-01 17:46 ` Mike Doty
2007-01-01 18:23 ` Stephen Bennett
2007-01-02 2:39 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-01-04 0:09 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2007-01-06 17:59 ` Steve Long
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