* Re: [gentoo-user] logrotate: /var/log/portage/elog "insecure permissions"?
@ 2011-08-28 18:44 99% ` Florian Philipp
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From: Florian Philipp @ 2011-08-28 18:44 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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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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