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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2019-11-20 12:47:52 +0100
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2019-11-20 16:16:46 +0100
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used by the user service manager. The default is again to use the same
path as the system manager.
+ * The systemd-id128 tool gained a new switch "-u" (or "--uuid") for
+ outputting the 128bit IDs in UUID format (i.e. in the "canonical
+ representation").
+
+ * Service units gained a new sandboxing option ProtectKernelLogs= which
+ makes sure the program cannot get direct access to the kernel log
+ buffer anymore, i.e. the syslog() system call (not to be confused
+ with the API of the same name in libc, which is not affected), the
+ /proc/kmsg and /dev/kmsg nodes and the CAP_SYSLOG capability are made
+ inaccessible to the service. It's recommended to enable this setting
+ for all services that should not be able to read from or write to the
+ kernel log buffer, which are probably almost all.
+
CHANGES WITH 243:
* This release enables unprivileged programs (i.e. requiring neither