[Gllug] DMZ to inside copy

[Doug Winter]

On Fri 16 Jan Kristian Davies wrote:
> Doug>  My skillz are, well rubbish, i've got stuck at the first and probably
> the easiest part.... Creating a user that has access to the log directory, i
> can create the user and give it a ../false shell, but the groups stuff has
> me lost a little...

exactly how you want to configure it will depend on who already owns the
logs, which you haven't said.
 
> So i add a user, add a group, add the user to the group, give the group read
> permission for the logs directory... Do i need to add root to the group?
> Removing the group root and leaving root with only owner permissions is that
> a problem?  When the logs rotate will the permissions change ?

That depends what is rotating them?

doug.

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