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| author | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2013-03-05 18:53:21 +0100 |
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| committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2013-03-05 18:59:03 +0100 |
| commit | a24c64f03f9c5c0304451d8542fee853187a5168 (patch) | |
| tree | edf4d80e044bf051629d8dcdfe43c9d6ec2abf67 /src/journal/journalctl.c | |
| parent | fc7b7e2e74ed0c4ce2bda91d693240c9dcd0d526 (diff) | |
journald: introduce new "systemd-journal" group and make it own the journal files
Previously all journal files were owned by "adm". In order to allow
specific users to read the journal files without granting it access to
the full "adm" powers, introduce a new specific group for this.
"systemd-journal" has to be created by the packaging scripts manually at
installation time. It's a good idea to assign a static UID/GID to this
group, since /var/log/journal might be shared across machines via NFS.
This commit also grants read access to the journal files by default to
members of the "wheel" and "adm" groups via file system ACLs, since
these "almost-root" groups should be able to see what's going on on the
system. These ACLs are created by "make install". Packagers probably
need to duplicate this logic in their postinst scripts.
This also adds documentation how to grant access to the journal to
additional users or groups via fs ACLs.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/journal/journalctl.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/journal/journalctl.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/src/journal/journalctl.c b/src/journal/journalctl.c index d898ae7179..cb93fea63b 100644 --- a/src/journal/journalctl.c +++ b/src/journal/journalctl.c @@ -870,16 +870,16 @@ static int verify(sd_journal *j) { static int access_check(void) { #ifdef HAVE_ACL - if (access("/var/log/journal", F_OK) < 0 && geteuid() != 0 && in_group("adm") <= 0) { - log_error("Unprivileged users can't see messages unless persistent log storage is enabled. Users in the group 'adm' can always see messages."); + if (access("/var/log/journal", F_OK) < 0 && geteuid() != 0 && in_group("systemd-journal") <= 0) { + log_error("Unprivileged users can't see messages unless persistent log storage is enabled. Users in the group 'systemd-journal' can always see messages."); return -EACCES; } - if (!arg_quiet && geteuid() != 0 && in_group("adm") <= 0) - log_warning("Showing user generated messages only. Users in the group 'adm' can see all messages. Pass -q to turn this notice off."); + if (!arg_quiet && geteuid() != 0 && in_group("systemd-journal") <= 0) + log_warning("Showing user generated messages only. Users in the group 'systemd-journal' can see all messages. Pass -q to turn this notice off."); #else - if (geteuid() != 0 && in_group("adm") <= 0) { - log_error("No access to messages. Only users in the group 'adm' can see messages."); + if (geteuid() != 0 && in_group("systemd-journal") <= 0) { + log_error("No access to messages. Only users in the group 'systemd-journal' can see messages."); return -EACCES; } #endif |