Re: [arch-dev-public] "adm" and "log" groups

On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 07:46:24PM +0100, Jan Steffens wrote:

The meaning of these two groups ("adm" and "log") seems to be identical. Both allow read access to system logs, except "adm" is used by journald and "log" by syslogd (and tomcat, apparently).

Wouldn't it make sense to do away with one?

If anything, I'd chip in a vote to keep "log", mostly because of: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-October/172682.html The value of the "adm" group will be largely diminished if "wheel" has equivalent privileges. d