{"id":50928,"date":"2026-02-05T14:17:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T19:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=50928"},"modified":"2026-02-05T14:17:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T19:17:47","slug":"accessing-the-unified-system-log-from-a-standard-user-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/05\/accessing-the-unified-system-log-from-a-standard-user-account\/","title":{"rendered":"Accessing the Unified System Log From a Standard User Account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/derflounder.wordpress.com\/2026\/01\/17\/enabling-a-standard-user-account-to-access-the-unified-system-log-on-macos-using-the-log-command-line-tool\/\">Rich Trouton<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/derflounder.wordpress.com\/2026\/01\/17\/enabling-a-standard-user-account-to-access-the-unified-system-log-on-macos-using-the-log-command-line-tool\/\">\n<p>Using the <code>log<\/code> command line tool doesn&rsquo;t require root privileges or require admin authorization, but it needs to be run by a user with admin rights.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>What this does is create a <code>sudo<\/code> configuration which allows all members of the <code>staff<\/code> group on the Mac, which is a group that has all local users on the Mac as members, to run the <code>log<\/code> command line tool with root privileges. This removes the need for the account to have admin rights and enables accounts with only standard rights to use the <code>log<\/code> command line tool to get information from the unified system log on that Mac.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rich Trouton: Using the log command line tool doesn&rsquo;t require root privileges or require admin authorization, but it needs to be run by a user with admin rights. [&#8230;] What this does is create a sudo configuration which allows all members of the staff group on the Mac, which is a group that has all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2026-02-05T19:17:50Z","apple_news_api_id":"ebc21726-9d8c-4512-9f67-3ab87d62ac09","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-02-05T19:17:50Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A68IXJp2MRRKfZzq4fWKsCQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30,2742,1504],"class_list":["post-50928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-mac","tag-macos-tahoe-26","tag-os_log"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50929,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50928\/revisions\/50929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}