Re: Recording usage without write permission

"David W. Hodgins" <[email protected]> Mon, 16 Oct 2023 13:39:48 -0400

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On Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:44:59 -0400, Michael F. Stemper <[email protected]> wrote:
> But, I'm curious as to whether there is some way to accomplish the
> same thing without giving promiscuous access to a file in my user
> space. Maybe some kind of messaging? Send a message to a daemon
> executing as me, and have that do the reading and writing? Some
> other method?

That's exactly how rsyslog and systemd-journald work. They each use a
daemon that runs as root the records the log entries. Whether or not
the user has read access depends on what groups the user is a member
of.

With systemd-journald, it supports both system and user level journal
entries.

Regards, Dave Hodgins