Bug 365319

Summary:	permissions of emerge.log are hardcoded into emergelog.py - the user cannot influence them
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	nuffigel <nuff.igel>
Component:	Core - Interface (emerge)	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	Keywords:	InVCS
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	358927

Description nuffigel 2011-04-29 15:51:23 UTC

I want my users to be able to read emerge.log. The standard procedure to achieve this seems to be to place the user into the portage group. However, this gives the users more privileges than intended (e.g. allowing them to write to emerge.log).

Since the permissions of emerge.log (660) are hardcoded into emergelog.py, I have no way of influencing them (other than hacking the source files).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. have a user run 'qlop -l'
Actual Results:  
lop: Could not open logfile '/var/log/emerge.log': Permission denied

Expected Results:  
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Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2011-04-29 16:10:01 UTC

It's fixed to only set permissions when creating the log:

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=a706f4489a017f2609b36acc50081e58e3a7e07f

Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2011-05-05 19:53:58 UTC

This is fixed in 2.1.9.47 and 2.2.0_alpha31.