[hobbit] log permissions

Charles Jones jonescr at cisco.com
Fri Oct 20 01:58:07 CEST 2006


By default Hobbit installs with its log reading module SUID root, so 
that it can read root-owned logfiles.

-Charles

T.J. Yang wrote:
> Cetainly, I once implemented  a bb external module  that was able to 
> retrieve informaton own by roo but using PowerBroker.
> If I am going to do it again (which looks like I need to), I will try 
> to drop PowerBroker
> and using sudo with sudoers on ldap(R1) for one central access control.
>
> Regards
> R1: http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/readme_ldap.html
> tj
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig Cook" 
> <craig at cookitservices.com>
> To: <hobbit at hswn.dk>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 11:47 PM
> Subject: [hobbit] log permissions
>
>
> Is there a way to tell hobbit to use sudo to read a log file?
>
> I want to monitor a log file owned by root, rw for root, nothing for 
> anyone else.  It is owned by an application that rolls it and resets 
> permissions. I don't want to mess with the app.
>
> I can write a cron job to check and set permissions, but that is not 
> ideal.
>
> Thanks
>
> Craig Cook
> -- 
> Systems Monitoring Consulting and Support Services
> http://www.cookitservices.com
>
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