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tty: TTY devices are owned by this group. This is used by write and wall to enable them to write to other people's TTYs, but it is not intended to be used directly. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to rsyslog in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1890177 Title: rsyslogd: file '/dev/console': open error: Permission denied Status in rsyslog package in Ubuntu: New Status in rsyslog source package in Focal: New Bug description: The Privilege Drop options ($PrivDrop*) in focal's rsyslog both point to 'syslog' for the user and group, and don't match the ownership/permission of '/dev/console' generating the following: syslog:Aug 3 15:16:58 <HOSTNAME> rsyslogd: file '/dev/console': open error: Permission denied [v8.2001.0 try https://www.rsyslog.com/e/2433 ] Looking in Bionic/18.04LTS, '/dev/console' used to be root:syslog[1], nowadays it's root:tty[2] [1] - Bionic/18.04LTS (Gcloud instance) # ls -l /dev/console crw--w---- 1 root syslog 5, 1 Aug 3 15:17 /dev/console [2] - Focal/20.04LTS (Gcloud instance) # ls -l /dev/console crw--w---- 1 root tty 5, 1 Aug 3 17:19 /dev/console # /etc/rsyslog.conf $PrivDropToUser syslog $PrivDropToGroup syslog ** As a debug exercise I did the following: - Cannot reproduce the situation if I intentionally get rid of the PrivDrop* options. - Cannot reproduce the situation if I intentionally add 'syslog' user member of 'tty' group. Meaning that it's pretty obvious with the above statement that the permission denied is caused by the permission/ownership mismatch between '/dev/console' 's ownership permission & syslog user (PrivDropTo[User|Group]). Other bug: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/compute-image-packages/issues/889 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rsyslog/+bug/1890177/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
