[Bug 1890177] Autopkgtest regression report (rsyslog/8.2001.0-1ubuntu1.1)

[Ubuntu SRU Bot]

All autopkgtests for the newly accepted rsyslog (8.2001.0-1ubuntu1.1) for focal have finished running.
The following regressions have been reported in tests triggered by the package:

systemd/245.4-4ubuntu3.2 (ppc64el)


Please visit the excuses page listed below and investigate the failures, proceeding afterwards as per the StableReleaseUpdates policy regarding autopkgtest regressions [1].

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/proposed-
migration/focal/update_excuses.html#rsyslog

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Autopkgtest_Regressions

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Title:
  rsyslogd: file '/dev/console': open error: Permission denied

Status in rsyslog package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in rsyslog source package in Focal:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  At the moment rsyslog cannot have access /dev/console due to a
  mismatch permission/ownership between '/dev/console' and the Privilege
  Drop User and Group 'syslog' in rsyslog.

  [Test Case]

  * Deploy focal/20.04LTS (tested in gcloud instance)
  * Install rsyslog
  * systemctl restart rsyslog OR systemctl restart rsyslog
  * Inspect /var/log/syslog for the following error:
  syslog:Aug  4 14:37:56 <HOSTNAME> rsyslogd: file '/dev/console': open error: Permission denied [v8.2001.0 try https://www.rsyslog.com/e/2433 ]

  [Regression potential]

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rsyslog/+bug/1890177/comments/4

  [Other information]

  Other bug:
  https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/compute-image-packages/issues/889

  [Original description]

  The Privilege Drop options ($PrivDrop*) in focal's rsyslog both point
  to 'syslog' for the user and group, and don't match the
  ownership/permission of '/dev/console' generating the following:

  syslog:Aug  3 15:16:58 <HOSTNAME> rsyslogd: file '/dev/console': open
  error: Permission denied [v8.2001.0 try https://www.rsyslog.com/e/2433
  ]

  Looking in Bionic/18.04LTS, '/dev/console' used to be root:syslog[1],
  nowadays it's root:tty[2]

  [1] - Bionic/18.04LTS (Gcloud instance)
  # ls -l /dev/console
  crw--w---- 1 root syslog 5, 1 Aug  3 15:17 /dev/console

  [2] - Focal/20.04LTS (Gcloud instance)
  # ls -l /dev/console
  crw--w---- 1 root tty 5, 1 Aug  3 17:19 /dev/console

  # /etc/rsyslog.conf
  $PrivDropToUser syslog
  $PrivDropToGroup syslog

  ** As a debug exercise I did the following:
  - Cannot reproduce the situation if I intentionally get rid of the PrivDrop* options.
  - Cannot reproduce the situation if I intentionally add 'syslog' user member of 'tty' group.

  Meaning that it's pretty obvious with the above statement that the
  permission denied is caused by the permission/ownership mismatch
  between '/dev/console' 's ownership permission & syslog user
  (PrivDropTo[User|Group]).

  Other bug:
  https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/compute-image-packages/issues/889

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