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

Guillaume ALAUX guillaume at archlinux.org
Sat Nov 10 13:53:03 EST 2012


On 10 November 2012 19:46, Jan Steffens <jan.steffens at gmail.com> 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?

Hi,

That's fine by me. If "log" is to be removed I could probably use adm
for tomcat then.

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Guillaume


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