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From: "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <flameeyes@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] transition system loggers to 'adm' user/group
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2007 15:31:54
Message-Id: 200701011628.28219@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] transition system loggers to 'adm' user/group by Mike Frysinger
1 On Monday 01 January 2007 10:29, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > how do people feel about transitioning the Gentoo standard system logger
3 > from running as root/root to adm/adm ?  the latest version of sysklogd
4 > includes some patches so that it can run as non-root and a user requested
5 > we make this the default ... however, i certainly dont want to start adding
6 > a different user/group for each system logger cause that's wicked lame
7 It would be really nice, especially if the adm group could be used to be able
8 to read the logs without using root login :)
9
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