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Try<br />
/usr/bin/tail<br />
instead of tail alone.<br />
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wmp<br />

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I would like to give one of my users access to the tail command (/usr/bin/tail). &nbsp;When they run <br />
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sudo tail -f /var/log/messages<br />
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they receive &quot;Sorry, user USER is not allowed to execute '/usr/bin/tail' as root &quot;<br />
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What do I need to add to /etc/sudoers to allow access??<br />
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I would like to give one of my users access to the tail command (/usr/bin/tail).  When they run 

sudo tail -f /var/log/messages

they receive "Sorry, user USER is not allowed to execute '/usr/bin/tail' as root "

What do I need to add to /etc/sudoers to allow access??



Linux sudoers access to tail command

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