Am 28.08.2011 13:14, schrieb Mick: > On Sunday 07 Aug 2011 16:20:18 Florian Philipp wrote: >> Am 07.08.2011 02:22, schrieb Mick: >>> On Friday 05 Aug 2011 23:08:38 Neil Bothwick wrote: >>>> On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 17:59:00 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: >>>>> Yes, this was introduced in 3.8.0 to fix security issues [1]. Change >>>>> your config to look like this: >>>>> /var/log/portage/elog/summary.log { >>>>> su portage portage >>>>> ... >>>>> } >>>>> >>>>> Disclaimer: I've not really tried this (yet) but I think I'm able to >>>>> read changelogs and man-pages. ;-) >>>> >>>> Yes that fixes it. The latest portage ebuilds include an updated config >>>> file. >>> >>> Hmm ... it still complains here! >>> >>> error: error setting owner of >>> /var/log/portage/elog/summary.log-20110801.gz: Operation not permitted >>> >>> >>> This is my /etc/logrotate.d/elog-save-summary: >>> =================================== >>> /var/log/portage/elog/summary.log { >>> >>> su portage portage >>> >>> missingok >>> nocreate >>> delaycompress >>> >>> } >>> =================================== >>> >>> # ls -la /var/log/portage/elog/summary.log >>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 4326 Aug 6 09:44 >>> /var/log/portage/elog/summary.log >>> >>> Can you see anything amiss? >> >> At least on my system, /var/log/portage has the following permissions: >> drwxr-xr-x root root >> >> Only root can write, therefore the config must read >> >> /var/log/portage/elog/summary.log { >> su root portage >> missingok >> nocreate >> delaycompress >> } > > The latest logrotate update wanted to change the above line from su root > portage to su portage portage ... > > Should I be changing the ownership of /var/log/portage and /var/log/portage > elog?
Unless portage now drops privileges from root:portage to portage:portage for writing logs, no one except root should be allowed to write in /var/log/portage. So, from my point of view, the answer is no. It seems so: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=374287 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=378451 This version of portage has just been stabilized this week. Regards, Florian Philipp
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