Bug 17682 - Patch for sysklogd to run as non root user
Summary: Patch for sysklogd to run as non root user
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: sysklogd
Version: 6.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jason Vas Dias
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: 17758 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-09-19 13:03 UTC by Jarno Huuskonen
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:28 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-08-25 23:40:41 UTC
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Description Jarno Huuskonen 2000-09-19 13:03:06 UTC
I just wanted to point out that there's a patch for sysklogd that
makes it possible to run syslogd/klogd as non root user. 

The patch was made by Chris Wing and (I found) it from:
http://eltopo.engin.umich.edu/caenlinux/6.1/SRPMS/
(it's in the sysklog srpm).

-Jarno

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2000-11-13 20:23:06 UTC
*** Bug 17758 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Jarno Huuskonen 2002-01-23 08:50:48 UTC
Owl Linux also has patches for klogd / syslogd to run as unprivileged users.
http://www.openwall.com/Owl/


Comment 3 Jason Vas Dias 2004-08-25 23:40:41 UTC
Just clearing out old bugs here.
The patches in question merely provide a command-line argument to
set the userid ; this could also be acheived with changing the
ownership of the executables and making them setuid. 
The more complex issues arise with changing everything else
(eg. logrotate) to take account of non-root owners of log files.
Also it would have problems listening on the reserved syslog port.
As such, I think this change is unlikely to be required.


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