Once upon a time, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com> said: > Your permission changes will be overwritten the moment a daemon sends a > message to syslog.
No, they won't. Where did you get that idea? The syslog/rsyslog daemon runs as root and can write to the file, no matter the permissions. It doesn't ever change permissions/ownership. > AFAIU, the reason the logs are owned by root is because it is written by > syslog (which runs as root). The motivation I think is, the logs should > remain untampered if your system is compromised. Say a regular user is > compromised, the logs are still intact and you can probably investigate > what went wrong since you still trust the logs. Of course this > reasoning becomes moot the moment your root account is compromised. The OP asked about making the logs readable by group wheel, not writable. -- Chris Adams <li...@cmadams.net> -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
