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| author | Anita Zhang <the.anitazha@gmail.com> | 2019-12-18 16:09:49 -0800 |
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| committer | Anita Zhang <the.anitazha@gmail.com> | 2019-12-18 16:12:43 -0800 |
| commit | a1533ad73f099ed7f2c01a69c23ad700fbf249f3 (patch) | |
| tree | 64acc5d61e996b20d3d00b649a5ccd161dc01ea4 /man/systemd-journald.service.xml | |
| parent | d59fc29bb742e4258dab0606ab1a95cfaa1ea473 (diff) | |
| download | systemd-a1533ad73f099ed7f2c01a69c23ad700fbf249f3.tar.gz | |
[man] note which UID ranges will get user journals
Fixes #13926
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| -rw-r--r-- | man/systemd-journald.service.xml | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd-journald.service.xml b/man/systemd-journald.service.xml index ea6fb54673..ec9f974f2d 100644 --- a/man/systemd-journald.service.xml +++ b/man/systemd-journald.service.xml @@ -200,8 +200,11 @@ systemd-tmpfiles --create --prefix /var/log/journal</programlisting> writable. Adding a user to this group thus enables them to read the journal files.</para> - <para>By default, each logged in user will get their own set of - journal files in <filename>/var/log/journal/</filename>. These + <para>By default, each user, with a UID outside the range of system users, + dynamic service users, and the nobody user, will get their own set of + journal files in <filename>/var/log/journal/</filename>. See + <ulink url="https://systemd.io/UIDS-GIDS">Users, Groups, UIDs and GIDs on systemd systems</ulink> + for more details about UID ranges. These journal files will not be owned by the user, however, in order to avoid that the user can write to them directly. Instead, file system ACLs are used to ensure the user gets read access only.</para> |