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Read the files of "root" by another user

Posted August 15, 2014 1.5k views

After execution of Initial Server Setup…
When i’ve changed user, i can’t open var/log/apache2 (Permission Denied) .“root” is owner. I’ve changed permissions to 755 but i think this solution is insecure. Can you suggest more reliable solution?
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shortkix.app August 15, 2014

Add your other user (non-root) to the sudoers file, then login as the user and sudo ls -al.

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alexprodvig August 16, 2014

The user was added to the sudoers file.
I’ve found the solution.
The problem was that apache logs dir. has rights 750, group “adm” and i couldn’t read this dir. with non-root / non-adm group user. To do this - i need to add “user” to “adm” group

sudo usermod -a -G adm user
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