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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2024-11-05 13:27:23 +0100
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2024-11-05 22:57:34 +0100
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man: highlight the privilege issues around the LogControl1 more
Let's emphasize the privilege thing with a <caution> section. Let's also point out that other D-Bus libraries are less restrictive than sd-bus by default regarding permission access. Fixes: #34735
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diff --git a/man/org.freedesktop.LogControl1.xml b/man/org.freedesktop.LogControl1.xml
index 5738a3dda6..135e8bc8de 100644
--- a/man/org.freedesktop.LogControl1.xml
+++ b/man/org.freedesktop.LogControl1.xml
@@ -89,7 +89,9 @@ node /org/freedesktop/LogControl1 {
<citerefentry project="man-pages"><refentrytitle>syslog</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry> call).
</para>
- <para>Those two properties are writable, so they may be set by sufficiently privileged users.</para>
+ <caution><title>Write Access</title><para>The <varname>LogLevel</varname> and
+ <varname>LogTarget</varname> properties are supposed to be writable. Care should be taken to ensure
+ that only appropriately privileged clients can modify them.</para></caution>
<para><varname>SyslogIdentifier</varname> is a read-only property that shows the "syslog identifier".
It is a short string that identifies the program that is the source of log messages that is passed to
@@ -127,6 +129,11 @@ node /org/freedesktop/LogControl1 {
<para>This creates a simple server on the bus. It implements the LogControl1 interface by providing
the required properties and allowing to set the writable ones. It logs at the configured log level using
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_journal_print</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
+
+ <para>Note that when porting this example to other D-Bus libraries it might be necessary to add manual
+ client privilege checks, as they typically do not default to the restrictive defaults of sd-bus, where
+ unprivileged access to properties is controlled via the <constant>SD_BUS_VTABLE_UNPRIVILEGED</constant>
+ flag that is opt-in rather than opt-out.</para>
</example>
</refsect1>