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@@ -158,6 +158,38 @@
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>Access Control</title>
+
+ <para>Journal files are by default owned and readable
+ by the <literal>systemd-journal</literal> system group
+ (but not writable). Adding a user to this group thus
+ enables her/him to read the journal files.</para>
+
+ <para>By default, each logged in user will get her/his
+ own set of journal files in
+ <filename>/var/log/journal/</filename>. These files
+ will not be owned by the user however, in order to
+ avoid that the user can write to them
+ directly. Instead, file system ACLs are used to ensure
+ the user gets read access only.</para>
+
+ <para>Additional users and groups may be granted
+ access to journal files via file system access control
+ lists (ACL). Distributions and administrators may
+ choose to grant read access to all members of the
+ <literal>wheel</literal> and <literal>adm</literal>
+ system groups with a command such as the
+ following:</para>
+
+ <programlisting># setfacl -Rnm g:wheel:rx,d:g:wheel:rx,g:adm:rx,d:g:adm:rx /var/log/journal/</programlisting>
+
+ <para>Note that this command will update the ACLs both
+ for existing journal files and for future journal
+ files created in the
+ <filename>/var/log/journal/</filename>
+ directory.</para>
+ </refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>See Also</title>
@@ -166,7 +198,8 @@
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>journalctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>journald.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.journal-fields</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-journal</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-journal</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>setfacl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
</para>
</refsect1>