From 42d8fafc4bb2f890688e25fe886f88b54ce2c1e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 01:15:59 -0500 Subject: man: mention "wheel" and "adm" in journalctl(1) https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70866 --- man/journalctl.xml | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'man') 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 @@ All users are granted access to their private per-user journals. However, by default, only root and users who are - members of the systemd-journal group get - access to the system journal and the journals of other - users. + members of a few special groups are granted access to the system + journal and the journals of other users. Members of the the + systemd-journal, adm, and + wheel groups can read all journal files. Note + that the two latter groups traditionally have additional + privileges specified by the distribution. Members of the + wheel group can often perform administrative + tasks. The output is paged through less by default, and long lines are "truncated" to screen width. The -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf