Re: [PROPOSAL] Permissions of /var/log.

[md@linux.it (Marco d'Itri)]

On Mar 28, Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> wrote:

 >The /var/log directory should have permissions 2775 (group-writable and
 >set-group-id) and be owned by root.adm.
 >
 >Rationale: root.adm is a better default than root.root.
This isn't a rationale, it's more like a joke.
Please explain the purpose of the adm group and why its members should
be able to destroy logs. A member of the adm group can't rotate logs
anyway because he can't restart syslogd.

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ciao,
Marco