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From ca1344d04a9c1804234417dcfbd868524abc7ce6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
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From: =?UTF-8?q?Zbigniew=20J=C4=99drzejewski-Szmek?= <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
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Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2024 11:28:04 +0100
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Subject: [PATCH] journal: again create user journals for users with high uids
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This effectively reverts a change in 115d5145a257c1a27330acf9f063b5f4d910ca4d
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'journald: move uid_for_system_journal() to uid-alloc-range.h', which slipped
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in an additional check of uid_is_container(uid). The problem is that that change
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is not backwards-compatible at all and very hard for users to handle.
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There is no common agreement on mappings of high-range uids. Systemd declares
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ownership of a large range for container uids in https://systemd.io/UIDS-GIDS/,
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but this is only a recent change and various sites allocated those ranges
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in a different way, in particular FreeIPA uses (used?) uids from this range
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for human users. On big sites with lots of users changing uids is obviously a
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hard problem. We generally assume that uids cannot be "freed" and/or changed
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and/or reused safely, so we shouldn't demand the same from others.
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This is somewhat similar to the situation with SYSTEM_ALLOC_UID_MIN /
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SYSTEM_UID_MAX, which we tried to define to a fixed value in our code, causing
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huge problems for existing systems with were created with a different
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definition and couldn't be easily updated. For that case, we added a
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configuration time switch and we now parse /etc/login.defs to actually use the
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value that is appropriate for the local system.
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Unfortunately, login.defs doesn't have a concept of container allocation ranges
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(and we don't have code to parse and use those nonexistent names either), so we
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can't tell users to adjust logind.defs to work around the changed definition.
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login.defs has SUB_UID_{MIN,MAX}, but those aren't really the same thing,
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because they are used to define where the add allocations for subuids, which is
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generally a much smaller range. Maybe we should talk with other folks about
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the appropriate allocation ranges and define some new settings in login.defs.
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But this would require discussion and coordination with other projects first.
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Actualy, it seems that this change was needed at all. The code in the container
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does not log to the outside journal. It talks to its own journald, which does
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journal splitting using its internal logic based on shifted uids. So let's
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revert the change to fix user systems.
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Fixes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2251843.
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---
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 src/basic/uid-classification.c | 2 +-
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 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/src/basic/uid-classification.c b/src/basic/uid-classification.c
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index e2d2cebc6d..2c8b06c0d3 100644
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--- a/src/basic/uid-classification.c
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+++ b/src/basic/uid-classification.c
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@@ -127,5 +127,5 @@ bool uid_for_system_journal(uid_t uid) {
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         /* Returns true if the specified UID shall get its data stored in the system journal. */
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-        return uid_is_system(uid) || uid_is_dynamic(uid) || uid == UID_NOBODY || uid_is_container(uid);
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+        return uid_is_system(uid) || uid_is_dynamic(uid) || uid == UID_NOBODY;
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 }