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From: | Brian Cully |
Subject: | Re: Why is greetd greeter user in so many groups? |
Date: | Wed, 22 Jun 2022 10:24:16 -0400 |
User-agent: | mu4e 1.6.11; emacs 28.1 |
Lars-Dominik Braun <lars@6xq.net> writes:
I believe wheel is necessary to write logs to /var/log, because they don’t go through the syslog. audio maybe for GTK-based greeter withaccessibility (i.e. TTS), but I’m not sure to be honest.
Only root can write to /var/log, so wheel is irrelevant. And, indeed, greetd logs are being written as root:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- psyduck:~% ls -la /var/log total 7028 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 560 Jun 19 14:10 ./ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 64 Jun 20 18:09 ../ […] -rw-r----- 1 root root 1694 Jun 20 16:12 greetd-1.log -rw-r----- 1 root root 8035 Jun 19 21:10 greetd-2.log --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- -bjc
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