This can be accomplished fairly easily by NFS exporting the part of the file system containing the logs as read-only. The developers would be able mount the file system on their workstation, and look at everything that permissions allow, but not be able to modify anything.
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Jeremy Warren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 1:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Read-Only Telnet -snip- The prime example that the developers keep bringing up is along these lines: User A calls in a problem which working with the app via their browser.The developer wants to ssh into the host and issue a tail -f logfile while the user is doing their thing to better understand the sequence of events causing the problem. With the current FTP method, it becomes difficult to completely correlate User Action A with Log message B, especially if their are other folks working just fine at the time. rbash was one of the ones that came up in my searches after your earlier post, but I haven't really had time just yet to delve deeper into just how restricted, "restricted" is. (Specifically preventing the modifications of files you might otherwise gain access to via world permissions).
