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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2014-06-19 12:36:35 +0200
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2014-06-19 12:38:45 +0200
commitedc3797f7cd9e37c24e5241cac3263e7c918f732 (patch)
tree789f94f81ffa82ccaacabfc857f1c774f4d88d3c
parent9eecdbc354c180885f10415b01fee126f3bb34aa (diff)
journald: make SplitMode=uid the default
Now that we actually can distuingish system and normal users there's no point in taking session information into account anymore when splitting up logs. This has the beenfit with that coredump information will actually end up in each user's own journal.
-rw-r--r--man/journald.conf.xml39
-rw-r--r--src/journal/journald-server.c11
-rw-r--r--src/journal/journald-server.h2
-rw-r--r--src/journal/journald.conf2
4 files changed, 27 insertions, 27 deletions
diff --git a/man/journald.conf.xml b/man/journald.conf.xml
index 5cd09a217e..046609e401 100644
--- a/man/journald.conf.xml
+++ b/man/journald.conf.xml
@@ -146,29 +146,30 @@
<listitem><para>Controls whether to
split up journal files per user. One
- of <literal>login</literal>,
- <literal>uid</literal> and
- <literal>none</literal>. If
- <literal>login</literal>, each logged-in
- user will get his own journal
- files, but systemd user IDs will log
- into the system journal. If
- <literal>uid</literal>, any user ID
- will get his own journal files
- regardless of whether it belongs to a
- system service or refers to a real
- logged in user. If
+ of <literal>uid</literal>,
+ <literal>login</literal> and
+ <literal>none</literal>. If
+ <literal>uid</literal>, all users will
+ get each their own journal files
+ regardless of whether they possess a
+ login session or not, however system
+ users will log into the system
+ journal. If <literal>login</literal>,
+ actually logged-in users will get each
+ their own journal files, but users
+ without login session and system users
+ will log into the system journal. If
<literal>none</literal>, journal files
are not split up by user and all
- messages are instead stored in the single
- system journal. Note that splitting
- up journal files by user is only
- available for journals stored
+ messages are instead stored in the
+ single system journal. Note that
+ splitting up journal files by user is
+ only available for journals stored
persistently. If journals are stored
- on volatile storage (see above), only a
- single journal file for all user IDs
+ on volatile storage (see above), only
+ a single journal file for all user IDs
is kept. Defaults to
- <literal>login</literal>.</para></listitem>
+ <literal>uid</literal>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
diff --git a/src/journal/journald-server.c b/src/journal/journald-server.c
index 39a1a07eda..a4600e3315 100644
--- a/src/journal/journald-server.c
+++ b/src/journal/journald-server.c
@@ -805,12 +805,11 @@ static void dispatch_message_real(
/* Split up strictly by any UID */
journal_uid = realuid;
else if (s->split_mode == SPLIT_LOGIN && realuid > 0 && owner_valid && owner > 0)
- /* Split up by login UIDs, this avoids creation of
- * individual journals for system UIDs. We do this
- * only if the realuid is not root, in order not to
- * accidentally leak privileged information to the
- * user that is logged by a privileged process that is
- * part of an unprivileged session.*/
+ /* Split up by login UIDs. We do this only if the
+ * realuid is not root, in order not to accidentally
+ * leak privileged information to the user that is
+ * logged by a privileged process that is part of an
+ * unprivileged session.*/
journal_uid = owner;
else
journal_uid = 0;
diff --git a/src/journal/journald-server.h b/src/journal/journald-server.h
index e468b82931..42a2235ba9 100644
--- a/src/journal/journald-server.h
+++ b/src/journal/journald-server.h
@@ -45,8 +45,8 @@ typedef enum Storage {
} Storage;
typedef enum SplitMode {
- SPLIT_LOGIN,
SPLIT_UID,
+ SPLIT_LOGIN,
SPLIT_NONE,
_SPLIT_MAX,
_SPLIT_INVALID = -1
diff --git a/src/journal/journald.conf b/src/journal/journald.conf
index d106d00b5e..cded4a9d47 100644
--- a/src/journal/journald.conf
+++ b/src/journal/journald.conf
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
#Storage=auto
#Compress=yes
#Seal=yes
-#SplitMode=login
+#SplitMode=uid
#SyncIntervalSec=5m
#RateLimitInterval=30s
#RateLimitBurst=1000