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