Re: [bitfolk] The perils of opening tcp/22 to the Internet

On 15 March 2010 12:52, john lewis <zen57162@???> wrote:
> Installed Fail2Ban this morning and hope I have set it up correctly.
> My only 'complaint' so far is that I cannot do
> 'tail /varlog/fail2ban.log' without having to su first. I believe there
> are ways round this but haven't followed this up as yet.
>

Er, sudo?

You can have a root password _and_ use sudo for tasks such as this.
Having sudo and a root password are not mutually exclusive setups.

Cheers,
Al.