[ILUG] quick Debian question

Niall O Broin niall at linux.ie
Tue Apr 27 13:08:08 IST 2004


On Tuesday 27 April 2004, brendan.halpin at ul.ie (Brendan Halpin) wrote:

>Cian rather tersely gave the best solution earlier: if you're a
>user who needs to read logs etc., put yourself in the adm group.
>This seems to be used to give read access in lots of places.

Perhaps terse, but definitely wrong, given the original question. No
amount of adding yourself to groups will let you read files with
permissions of 600.



Niall



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