[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] Bug#726160: Bug#726160: journalctl: users in 'adm' group should be able to read logs

[Michael Stapelberg]

control: forcemerge 717386 -1

Hi gustavo,

gustavo panizzo <gfa at zumbi.com.ar> writes:

> Package: systemd
> Version: 204-5
> Severity: normal
>
> when journalctl is invoked as regular user the following message is
> displayed:
>
> Unprivileged users cannot access messages, unless persistent log storage
> is
> enabled. Users in the 'systemd-journal' group may always access
> messages.
>
> if persistent storage is configured, the following message is displayed:
>
> Hint: You are currently not seeing messages from other users and the system.
>       Users in the 'systemd-journal' group can see all messages. Pass -q to
>       turn off this notice.
> No journal files were opened due to insufficient permissions.
>
> the traditional user group with read access to logs in Debian is 'adm'.
>
> /usr/share/doc/base-passwd/users-and-groups.txt.gz has the following sentence
>     
>     Group adm is used for system monitoring tasks. Members of this group can
>     read many log files in /var/log, and can use xconsole.
>
> i don't care what group should be able to read journal and/or traditional 
> syslog daemon files, but should be the same group for both implementations.
Thanks for your report. I am merging this with the existing bug about
the same issue.

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Best regards,
Michael