Generalized the title to include terminal devices (e.g. Linux virtual terminals) as well.
I'd like to see a better way to set this up. Yes, you can add the syslog user to the dialout and/or tty groups, but that grants access to *all* serial/terminal devices respectively. This can have security consequences if the syslog user is compromised, given that serial devices can include modems, and terminal devices would encompass tty- mode user login sessions. The current situation is particularly awkward because /etc/rsyslog.d/50-default.conf contains a commented-out rule that directs logging to tty8. No mention is made of any permission issues. I wanted to do basically that, and was puzzled for a few minutes as to why nothing was appearing on the configured virtual terminal. ** Summary changed: - syslog user can't write to /dev/ttyS0 + syslog user can't write to serial or terminal devices -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1258245 Title: syslog user can't write to serial or terminal devices To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rsyslog/+bug/1258245/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
