Re: The permissions of the apache2 log dir

On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Titanus Eramius <titanus@xxxxxxxxx> 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


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