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From: Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev]  Re: [rfc] transition system loggers to 'adm' user/group
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2007 12:58:25 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <enblkd$kt6$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4599552B.6000505@gentoo.org>

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Petteri Räty wrote:
> Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò kirjoitti:
>> It would be really nice, especially if the adm group could be used to be able 
>> to read the logs without using root login :)

> Why not use the wheel group?

adm is the standard unix group used to access system logs.  there's a
few good reasons you might want to give someone those permissions
without full wheel access.


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  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-01 19:02 UTC|newest]

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   ` [gentoo-dev] " Doug Goldstein
2007-01-01 18:38   ` Petteri Räty
2007-01-01 18:58     ` Ryan Hill [this message]
2007-01-01 19:14     ` 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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