On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Titanus Eramius <tita...@aptget.dk> wrote: > Hi list > > Last week i ran into the very restrictive folder permissions of the > apache2 log dir. They where "drwxr-x--- root adm" but I changed them > to "rwxr-xr-x root adm" so a unprivileged user may opdate webalizer[1] > at night. > > That got me thinking (which I generally don't like...), does anyone > know why the permissions are so strict, and is there a risk in the > change I've made beside that everybody now may read the logs? > > The answer seems to elude me.
The answer eludes you because... that's it! There's no other risk to what you've done. That said, I went the other way and stuck my user account in the adm group so I could read logs. -- Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caoevnyvrkyq1emq-fko7i31e9rkui+8eeyxhjesqrrkp-df...@mail.gmail.com