Re: Security implications ?

[Bret Hughes <bhughes elevating com>]

Now that you mention it, I find this irritating as well.  I guess it is time to
figure out sudo.  From what I have read on this list you can set up pretty fine
grained permisions on what can be run by users.  I think then it would be
something like

sudo tail /var/log/messages

I'm sure one of the kind gurus will be willing to let us know if I am off base
here.  I don't want to open the logs since I suspect that reading them would
help a cracker get into my systems.

Bret

Mike Lewis wrote:

> The default perms on /var/log/messages are:
>
> -rw-------   1 root     root       162393 Jan 30 19:58 /var/log/messages
> -rw-------   1 root     root      4198458 Jan 30 04:02 /var/log/messages.1
> -rw-------   1 root     root       612433 Jan 23 03:40 /var/log/messages.2
>
> What would be the security implications of changing the perms to 644 ?  What
> I'd like to do is tail my log without having to su.  Is there a better way ?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
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