From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1H1QZQ-0002UX-O7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 01 Jan 2007 17:03:33 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l01H2f9x004884; Mon, 1 Jan 2007 17:02:41 GMT Received: from imf16aec.mail.bellsouth.net (imf16aec.mail.bellsouth.net [205.152.59.64]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l01H0iuq031549 for ; Mon, 1 Jan 2007 17:00:45 GMT Received: from ibm58aec.bellsouth.net ([68.214.112.116]) by imf16aec.mail.bellsouth.net with ESMTP id <20070101170043.DFYA10904.imf16aec.mail.bellsouth.net@ibm58aec.bellsouth.net> for ; Mon, 1 Jan 2007 12:00:43 -0500 Received: from [192.168.2.50] (really [68.214.112.116]) by ibm58aec.bellsouth.net with ESMTP id <20070101170042.JVWI18764.ibm58aec.bellsouth.net@[192.168.2.50]> for ; Mon, 1 Jan 2007 12:00:42 -0500 Message-ID: <45993DFE.90304@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2007 11:59:42 -0500 From: Doug Goldstein User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061222) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] transition system loggers to 'adm' user/group References: <200701010429.51173.vapier@gentoo.org> <200701011628.28219@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> In-Reply-To: <200701011628.28219@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id l01H0iuq031549 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id l01H2fBr004884 X-Archives-Salt: cdfc7c98-388f-485c-baf4-1836ab7e3c28 X-Archives-Hash: 5b0f609a06cd976f49b098ae8e66833b Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten=F2 wrote: > On Monday 01 January 2007 10:29, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> how do people feel about transitioning the Gentoo standard system lo= gger >> 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 reques= ted >> we make this the default ... however, i certainly dont want to start a= dding >> 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 b= e able=20 > to read the logs without using root login :) >=20 Awesome idea Mike. And allowing people to read the logs if they were in=20 the adm group would be perfect too. --=20 Doug Goldstein http://dev.gentoo.org/~cardoe/ --=20 gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list