[Xymon] Hobbit Permission Problem

[Josh Luthman]

So (user) hobbit is in group adm

ll shows the file is owned by group adm

(user) hobbit can not read the file?

Josh Luthman
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On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 1:00 AM, Adam Goryachev <adam at websitemanagers.com.au
> wrote:

> On 29/03/2011 3:40 PM, David Baldwin wrote:
> > On 29/03/11 3:34 PM, Adam Goryachev wrote:
> >> On 29/03/2011 3:09 PM, David Baldwin wrote:
> >>>> Finally, here is all the info I can see on the file:
> >>>> hobbit at host:/var/log$ stat /var/log/messages
> >>>>   File: `/var/log/messages'
> >>>>   Size: 21353           Blocks: 48         IO Block: 1048576 regular
> file
> >>>> Device: eh/14d  Inode: 4202796     Links: 1
> >>>> Access: (0640/-rw-r-----)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    4/
> adm)
> >>>> Access: 2011-03-28 20:21:00.000000000 +1100
> >>>> Modify: 2011-03-29 13:27:00.000000000 +1100
> >>>> Change: 2011-03-29 13:27:00.000000000 +1100
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm running a fairly standard Debian lenny
> >>>>
> >>>> The root user has no problem reading/writing the file/etc....
> >>>>
> >>>> Any pointers would be appreciated....
> >>> My solution to this one is to modify /etc/logrotate.d/syslog and change
> >>> group permissions on the file in question. A better solution might be
> to
> >>> use ACLs, but I tried that once and ran into an issue where '-r' test
> >>> didn't respect ACLs when checking it could read the log file! That may
> >>> have been back in the days of BB even... Group permissions haven't
> >>> caused any issues anyway :)
> >> Thanks for your suggestion, but I have other processes that rely on the
> >> adm group having access to the log files, and I don't want to make them
> >> world readable.
> >>
> > Sorry, didn't read all your message closely enough.
> >> The very short problem is:
> >> 1) I am a user with a supplemental group (adm)
> >> 2) I have a file with my supplemental group (adm) which is group
> readable
> >> 3) I can't read the file
> >>
> >> I understand permissions, groups, etc very well, I understand logrotate
> >> and it's config files, but I am stumped as to why this isn't working....
> > Did you restart the hobbit client process after you changed the group
> > membership of the hobbit user?
> Yes, this problem has been around for a while, I've rebooted the system
> a number of times as well....
>
> Regards,
> Adam
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