[Samba] Logging.

Hussam Al-Tayeb ht990332 at gmx.com
Tue Jul 5 20:01:41 UTC 2022


On Tue, 2022-07-05 at 20:43 +0100, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> On Tue, 2022-07-05 at 22:34 +0300, Hussam Al-Tayeb via samba wrote:
> > On Tue, 2022-07-05 at 19:06 +0100, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2022-07-05 at 14:21 +0300, Hussam Al-Tayeb via samba
> > > wrote:
> > > > Hello. I am using samba 4.16.2
> > > > There are various log files in /var/log/samba/ that are
> > > > publicly
> > > > readable.
> > > > Is it possible to change the permissions of the generated logs
> > > > of
> > > > completely forward all logging to syslog/journald?
> > > > 
> > > > Thank you.
> > > 
> > > You do not mention what OS this on, but on Debian, while there
> > > are
> > > files in /var/log/samba that are world readable, the world cannot
> > > enter
> > > /var/log/samba to read them, only 'root' and members of the 'adm'
> > > group
> > > can enter.
> > > 
> > > Rowland
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > It's Arch Linux. The permissions of /var/log/samba are set by the
> > package to 0755.
> 
> Then it looks like an Arch problem:
> 
> On Debian:
> 
> ls -ld /var/log/samba/
> drwxr-x--- 3 root adm 4096 Jul  3 07:54 /var/log/samba/
> 
> Which to me is '0750'
> 
> Rowland
> 
> 
Thank you. I changed the permission to 0750 on my machine.



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