On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:31:23 +0000
Alan Pope <alan@???> wrote:
> 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.
I haven't used sudo on any system I have installed (exclusively Debian
for the past 10 years) so it didn't spring to mind ;-)
--
John Lewis
Debian & the GeneWeb genealogical data server
