[hobbit] log permissions
Henrik Stoerner
henrik at hswn.dk
Fri Oct 20 11:16:58 CEST 2006
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 04:58:07PM -0700, Charles Jones wrote:
> By default Hobbit installs with its log reading module SUID root, so
> that it can read root-owned logfiles.
No, that was a mistake done in one of the early 4.2.0 beta versions.
The release version refuses to run as suid-root.
The recommended solution is to make the Hobbit user be a member of a
group that has read-access to the logfiles.
Regards,
Henrik
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