Actually on Edgy, I can't reproduce this. I created a new user, logged in, opened gnome-system-log. I didn't belong to the 'adm' group but I got no error messages. However, only /var/log/cups/cups_error and /var/log/Xorg.0.log were visible.
-- gnome-system-log could produce more helpful error messages https://launchpad.net/bugs/13734 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
