No, this is for a work system ... it's incredibly locked down.  You only have free reign in your home directory.  Everything and everywhere else is a sudo request.  We have a /logs directory in a home directory that points to a "/var/log/xyz/abc.log" location, but we were unsure if we could simply request "/home/user/logs", or if we needed a separate request for the /var location as well.

On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 2:37 PM, Stephen Partington <cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote:

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@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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