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| author | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> | 2015-01-06 01:15:59 -0500 |
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| committer | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> | 2015-01-18 19:06:47 -0500 |
| commit | 42d8fafc4bb2f890688e25fe886f88b54ce2c1e3 (patch) | |
| tree | 907cfd36eb76da088e995831149d93a53a778394 /man/journalctl.xml | |
| parent | 49fba678a0e2c30df0d2ccefab731beb3955a473 (diff) | |
man: mention "wheel" and "adm" in journalctl(1)
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70866
Diffstat (limited to 'man/journalctl.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/journalctl.xml | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man/journalctl.xml b/man/journalctl.xml index 7b9f9b8a56..770cf9bb29 100644 --- a/man/journalctl.xml +++ b/man/journalctl.xml @@ -110,9 +110,14 @@ <para>All users are granted access to their private per-user journals. However, by default, only root and users who are - members of the <literal>systemd-journal</literal> group get - access to the system journal and the journals of other - users.</para> + members of a few special groups are granted access to the system + journal and the journals of other users. Members of the the + <literal>systemd-journal</literal>, <literal>adm</literal>, and + <literal>wheel</literal> groups can read all journal files. Note + that the two latter groups traditionally have additional + privileges specified by the distribution. Members of the + <literal>wheel</literal> group can often perform administrative + tasks.</para> <para>The output is paged through <command>less</command> by default, and long lines are "truncated" to screen width. The |