Why do you need it 'world readable' ?
You just need to add the nagios user to the ossec group.

On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 1:33 PM, Tahir Hafiz <[email protected]> wrote:

> The permissions on the alerts.log are thus:
> -rw-r----- 2 ossec ossec 13949 Jun 27 17:07 alerts.log
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> However, we need our Nagios nrpe agent (nagios user) to be able to read
> the file and then alert depending on the level that we have set for it to
> parse and alert on.
> Can anyone think of any problems making it world readable? I don't believe
> there is anything sensitive put in that file.
>
> The alternative would be to make the nagios user part of the ossec group,
> however, this means that nagios user would have power over the ossec
> process and files.
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