syslog-ng can't run as non-root Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. create user and group syslog 2. set SYSLOG_NG_OPTS="-u syslog -g syslog" in /etc/conf.d/syslog-ng 3. start syslog Actual Results: # /etc/init.d/syslog-ng start * Caching service dependencies ... [ ok ] * Starting syslog-ng ... Error creating persistent state file; filename='/var/lib/misc/syslog-ng.persist-', error='Permission denied (13)' * start-stop-daemon: failed to start `/usr/sbin/syslog-ng' * Failed to start syslog-ng [ !! ] * ERROR: syslog-ng failed to start Expected Results: syslog runs as user syslog Portage 2.1.11.43 (hardened/linux/amd64, gcc-4.7.3, glibc-2.15-r3, 3.7.1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.7.1-x86_64-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_CPU_G860_@_3.00GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 8079528 total, 1901064 free KiB Swap: 0 total, 0 free Timestamp of tree: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:45:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.23.1 ccache version 3.1.9 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.2_p42 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.12-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.7.3-r3, 3.2.3-r2 dev-util/ccache: 3.1.9 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.10.2-r1 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.27.1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.9.8.4 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 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then use --persist-file to someplace that user can write to.
I created directories and used --persist-file and --pidfile, but it wasn't enough. Error opening control socket, bind() failed; socket='/var/run/syslog-ng.ctl', error='Address already in use (98)' I had to change ebuild --- syslog-ng-3.3.5-r1.ebuild 2012-06-08 20:50:14.000000000 +0200 +++ syslog-ng-3.3.5-r131.ebuild 2013-01-19 18:46:01.021751100 +0100 @@ -68,8 +68,8 @@ --disable-systemd \ --with-ivykis=internal \ --sysconfdir=/etc/syslog-ng \ - --localstatedir=/var/lib/misc \ - --with-pidfile-dir=/var/run \ + --localstatedir=/var/lib/misc/syslog \ + --with-pidfile-dir=/var/run/syslog \ --with-module-dir=/usr/$(get_libdir)/syslog-ng \ $(use_enable caps linux-caps) \ $(use_enable ipv6) \ change /etc/init.d/syslog-ng from SYSLOG_NG_PIDFILE=${SYSLOG_NG_PIDFILE:-/var/run/${SVCNAME}.pid} to SYSLOG_NG_PIDFILE=${SYSLOG_NG_PIDFILE:-/var/run/syslog/${SVCNAME}.pid} syslog seems to run now, but it is possible it is still broken
/var/run/syslog has to be always created --- syslog-ng.old 2013-01-19 18:54:51.000000000 +0100 +++ syslog-ng 2013-01-22 11:10:22.844060488 +0100 @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ SYSLOG_NG_SERVICE=${SYSLOG_NG_SERVICE:-syslog-ng} SYSLOG_NG_CONFIGFILE=${SYSLOG_NG_CONFIGFILE:-/etc/syslog-ng/${SYSLOG_NG_SERVICE}.conf} -SYSLOG_NG_PIDFILE=${SYSLOG_NG_PIDFILE:-/var/run/${SVCNAME}.pid} +SYSLOG_NG_PIDFILE=${SYSLOG_NG_PIDFILE:-/var/run/syslog/${SVCNAME}.pid} SYSLOG_NG_OPTS="--cfgfile ${SYSLOG_NG_CONFIGFILE} --pidfile ${SYSLOG_NG_PIDFILE} ${SYSLOG_NG_OPTS}" depend() { @@ -50,6 +50,8 @@ checkconfig || return 1 ebegin "Starting ${SVCNAME}" [ -n "${SYSLOG_NG_OPTS}" ] && SYSLOG_NG_OPTS="-- ${SYSLOG_NG_OPTS}" + mkdir /var/run/syslog + chown syslog /var/run/syslog start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile "${SYSLOG_NG_PIDFILE}" --exec /usr/sbin/syslog-ng ${SYSLOG_NG_OPTS} eend $? "Failed to start ${SVCNAME}" }
Created attachment 337002 [details, diff] complete patch RC1
(In reply to comment #4) > Created attachment 337002 [details, diff] [details, diff] > complete patch RC1 It seems syslog running as user syslog isn't safe enough. Syslog should run in chroot.
chroot support in syslog-ng is useless I replaced syslog-ng with app-admin/sysklogd, which is safe enough without chroot.
