Access to some system logs in /var/log is restricted to root only.
Here's a handy way to grant access read-only access to all system logs without all that mucking around with sudo and file permissions.
- Install bindfs from the EPEL repo.
- Create a group (eg: logs) and add all users to it who need logfile access
- Create a mountpoint for the read-only view of /var/log (eg: /log)
- Create a bind mount in /etc/fstab
- /var/log /log fuse.bindfs ro,force-group=logs,perms=g+rD 0 0
- Mount /log
System logs can now be viewed in /log by any user who is a member of the logs group.
This works because bindfs forces group read access on all files in the bind mount
