[ILUG] quick Debian question

[Niall O Broin]

On Tuesday 27 April 2004, jm at jmason.org (Justin Mason) wrote:

>> Yes definitely wrong, sorry for that. Didn't stop and think about the whole 
>> 600 thing. In my defense on my box (Debian testing) a lot of the log files 
>> belong to group adm and all of the others are world readable. This was 
>> default.
>
>Actually, no, you're right!  The logs *are* 640, group adm, so that works
>just fine.   (I'd just assumed they were 600 without ls'ing them, my bad).
>OK, that makes sense -- and sensible UNIXy design too.
>
>So, to recap: I edited /etc/group, added "jm" to "adm" line, then
>logged out and back in again.  Works great...

Justin should be ashamed of himself for wasting all our time with such a
sloppy question. I hereby sentence him to some community service. Perhaps he
might be able to write some small piece of software that a few of us might
find useful?


Niall