On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 8:53 PM, Arno Gaboury
Dear all,
as I was configuring a conky window on my desktop, I decided to add some precisions and tips for configuring the *.conkyrc* file in the Arch WIKI.
Reading any /var/log file needs to be root, thus making difficult to run any home config file with read access to log files. My turnaround is to *$chown root:log /var/log* then *$usermod -aG log username*. Security wise, I do not know if this can bring serious potential breach in the system. If yes, please tell me as I will NOT let this turnaround in the WIKI. What would be a safer solution to read the log files in my conky window?
How about using sudo without password required? It is possible to configure it to allow specific commands - maybe the user can have sudo access to read the relevant log files? -- mike c