According to man journalctl: "All users are granted access to their private per-user journals. However, by default, only root and users who are members of a few special groups are granted access to the system journal and the journals of other users. Members of the groups "systemd-journal", "adm", and "wheel" can read all journal files." However, this seems to contradict the above statement: 13:28 bob@blackbox:~> groups users audio cdrom vboxusers systemd-journal 13:28 bob@blackbox:~> journalctl --user No journal files were opened due to insufficient permissions. What permissions might I be lacking? Bob -- Bob Williams System: Linux 4.4.36-8-default Distro: openSUSE 42.2 (x86_64) Desktop: KDE Frameworks: 5.26.0, Qt: 5.6.1 and Plasma: 5.8.2