[Bug 1075901] Re: Incorrect ownership or permissions for spool/work directory

[Brian Murray]

Hello Haw, or anyone else affected,

Accepted rsyslog into precise-proposed. The package will build now and
be available at
http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rsyslog/5.8.6-1ubuntu8.5 in a few
hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to
enable and use -proposed.  Your feedback will aid us getting this update
out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag
from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the
bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to
verification-failed.  In either case, details of your testing will help
us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance!

** Changed in: rsyslog (Ubuntu Precise)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Committed

** Tags added: verification-needed

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Title:
  Incorrect ownership or permissions for spool/work directory

Status in Rsyslog:
  Fix Released
Status in “rsyslog” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “rsyslog” source package in Precise:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  Impact:
  /var/spool/rsyslog has wrong ownership/permissions

  Test Case:
  ls -ld /var/spool/rsyslog -> should be owned by syslog:adm

  Regression Potential:
  Limited, the old permissions were wrong, it's still a change in behaviour though...

  ---

  Hi,

  By default, the spool/work directory is as follows:

  drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar  8  2012 /var/spool/rsyslog

  This is incorrect as rsyslog drops root privileges and changes to the
  syslog user. As tested, spool files are also written out as the syslog
  user:

  root at juju-canonistack-haw-instance-1:/var/spool/rsyslog# ls -la
  total 16
  drwxrwxrwx 2 syslog adm    4096 Nov  7 09:20 .
  drwxr-xr-x 6 root   root   4096 Nov  7 06:46 ..
  -rw------- 1 syslog syslog 1603 Nov  7 09:20 srvrfwd.00000001
  -rw------- 1 syslog syslog  482 Nov  7 09:20 srvrfwd.qi

  The version of rsyslog used is as follows:

  root at juju-canonistack-haw-instance-1:/var/spool# dpkg -l | grep rsyslog
  ii  rsyslog                          5.8.6-1ubuntu8                 reliable system and kernel logging daemon
  ii  rsyslog-relp                     5.8.6-1ubuntu8                 RELP protocol support for rsyslog

  Could we please have this fixed?

  Thanks,

  Haw

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