[syslog-ng] [RFC]: syslog-ng and UNIX credentials

[Balazs Scheidler]

Hi,

Thanks for the response.

Well, thats right. I was thinking on having this enabled only on /dev/log
automatically via the system driver. But even there could be disabled by
using the lower level drivers directly.

I havent seen anything that would use that field for something else. Did
you?

Also, journal/rsyslog is doing the same.
On Dec 11, 2013 1:56 PM, "Evan Rempel" <erempel at uvic.ca> wrote:

>  If the PID is replaced by this new feature then the PID included in the
> message would be lost and according to the syslog RFC the item in [] is a
> unique identifier and NOT always a PID. I think that the PID included in
> the message should be retained, perhaps in another macro such as EPID for
> effective PID or something that matches the RFC description.
>
>
>  Sent from Samsung Mobile
>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Gergely Nagy
> Date:12/10/2013 9:16 AM (GMT-06:00)
> To: syslog-ng OSE list
> Subject: [syslog-ng] [RFC]: syslog-ng and UNIX credentials
>
>  Hi!
>
> We had a short chat with Bazsi earlier today, and he's working on a
> feature that will allow syslog-ng to pick out UNIX credentials passed
> through unix sockets (such as /dev/log). This means that we receive the
> PID, the UID and the GID of the sending program, and can opt to store it
> someplace. So far, syslog-ng was not doing that, but with the new
> feature, it becomes possible to store these.
>
> The idea at the moment is, is to have a flag for unix-* sources that
> enables collecting these credentials. If turned off (the default, unless
> using system(), which would turn it on for /dev/log), nothing changes.
> If turned on, it would replace the $PID sent over the socket with the
> one extracted from credentials. It would also add the "${.unix.GID}" and
> "${.unix.UID}" properties to the log message, along with "${.unix.EXE}"
> on platforms that support looking up the executable (Linux, for now).
>
> We'd like to invite the broader community to share your feelings about
> this feature, the naming of the properties and how You would like it to
> work, if you're interested in making use of this functionality.
>
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