change rights of /var/log/messages

[zbindere]

would it be a big security risk when I change the
/var/log/messages rights from
600 to 640

And where can I do that? I already did that but it changed back to 600.
is that a logrotate entry?

[hw-tph]

Set up your syslogger to use whatever permissions you want. I use syslog-ng, and I have a group called log where the users can view the system logs. Here is an example destination entry from my syslog-ng.conf: