It's safer to use the direct path.

Although unlikely,  someone could change the symlink to point to something you would prefer the user not have access to.

TJ

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On Feb 5, 2016, 2:19 PM, at 2:19 PM, "Snyder, Alexander" <alex@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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