Review of the current warty

Matt Zimmerman mdz at alcor.net
Tue Aug 24 18:00:45 CDT 2004


On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 11:57:51PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 03:18:40PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 12:19:46AM +0100, Michael Vogt wrote:
> > > Systemtools:
> > > ------------
> > > * System log viewer complains that it can't open /var/log/auth.log
> > >   and displays nothing instead
> > 
> > Any objections to adding the initial user to group adm?
> 
> adm
> 
>     Group adm is used for system monitoring tasks. Members of this group
>     can read many log files in /var/log, and can use xconsole.
> 
>     Historically, /var/log was /usr/adm (and later /var/adm), thus the
>     name of the group.
> 
>     HELP: Perhaps policy should state the purpose of this group so users
>     may be safely added to it, in certainty that all they'll be able to
>     do is read logs. Wouldn't hurt to rename it 'log' either ...
> 
> adm is probably OK for the initial user.

Sounds good.  Please include this in your next base-config upload.

-- 
 - mdz




More information about the sounder mailing list