Description of problem: Currently DNF has a cron job that regularly checks mirrors for metadata updates. Its output was piped to /var/log/dnf-makecache.cron. The ABRT collector in DNF has a line akin to: cp /var/log/dnf-makecache.cron . so this files is then attached to the reported ticket. Note that the collectors can run under arbitrary user, even an unprivileged one. Moving to systemd, I changed the line to: journalctl _SYSTEMD_UNIT=dnf-makecache.service &>dnf-makecache.log For a regular user this fails with: Unprivileged users can't see messages unless persistent log storage is enabled. Users in the group 'adm' can always see messages. Components using custom ABRT collectors are thus prevented from migrating to systemd.
Hmm, adding the abrt user to the "adm" group sounds like a good, secure solution, no?
Right, but how can we systematically achieve that the user who happens to witness a DNF traceback is in the 'adm' group when he decides to report it?
Use EVENT=post-create, it will be run with root privs. But please make sure that your script will ALWAYS finish with zero code, otherwise abrt will delete the crash if your script fails.
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