Bug#383666: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#383666: remove chown on /var/log/{statsdir}

Peter Eisentraut peter_e at gmx.net
Fri Aug 18 16:47:13 UTC 2006


Am Freitag, 18. August 2006 18:12 schrieb General Stone:
> Please change in /etc/init.d/ntp the line:
> "chown -R ntp:ntp /var/lib/ntp /var/log/ntpstats" to
> "chown -R ntp:ntp /var/lib/ntp", because it should possible, that an
> user in group xy can access on the logs but is not in the group ntp.

This is not a matter of reading the logs but writing the logs.  The ntpd 
daemon runs as ntp:ntp, so the permissions need to be set appropriately.  In 
order to have general read access to log files on Debian, you need to be 
root.




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