Sudo ...

[Stephen Partington]

you can use the symlink, and maybe grant group access to the symlink that
should give you access to the other location. but generally speaking normal
users have read access to /var. so you should not need elevated credentials.

On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 2:19 PM, Snyder, Alexander <alex at misteralexander.com>
wrote:

> Does anyone know if you grant sudo access to a symlink, does that grant
> access to the destination?
>
> Like this ... inside the sudoers file, I have:
>
> /bin/cat * /home/user/logs
>
> "logs" is a symlink pointing to:  /var/log/httpd/
>
> will that work, or will i need to specify the direct path?
>
> Thanks,
> Alex.
>
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