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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2016-07-25 20:56:24 +0200
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2016-07-25 14:56:24 -0400
commit91c8861526816be8e19c52f8ef5339a4eca5573e (patch)
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parent87d41d6244f1eaf441769f7f6216a606c52b8e89 (diff)
man: extend documentation on the SplitMode= setting (#3801)
Adressing https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/3755#issuecomment-234214273
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<varlistentry>
<term><varname>SplitMode=</varname></term>
- <listitem><para>Controls whether to split up journal files per
- user. One 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 persistently. If journals are
- stored on volatile storage (see above), only a single journal
- file for all user IDs is kept. Defaults to
+ <listitem><para>Controls whether to split up journal files per user. Split-up journal files are primarily
+ useful for access control: on UNIX/Linux access control is managed per file, and the journal daemon will assign
+ users read access to their journal files. This setting takes one of <literal>uid</literal>,
+ <literal>login</literal> or <literal>none</literal>. If <literal>uid</literal>, all regular users will get each
+ their own journal files regardless of whether their processes possess login sessions 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. Note that in this mode, user code running outside of any login session will log into the system log
+ instead of the split-out user logs. Most importantly, this means that information about core dumps of user
+ processes collected via the
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-coredump</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> subsystem
+ will end up in the system logs instead of the user logs, and thus not be accessible to the owning users. If
+ <literal>none</literal>, journal files are not split up by user and all messages are instead stored in the
+ single system journal. In this mode unprivileged users generally do not have access to their own log data. 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 is kept. Defaults to
<literal>uid</literal>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>