[Touch-packages] [Bug 1414507] Re: rsyslog hangs if setuid during logging process causes further logging

2015-01-25 Thread Stephen Parry
I found a workaround that shuts libnss up; the following settings in /etc/ldap.conf were: nss_initgroups_minimum_uid 0 nss_initgroups_ignoreusers root I changed: nss_initgroups_minimum_uid 30 then used usermodify to shuffle the syslog user uid (it was 120ish): usermodify -u14 s

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1414507] [NEW] rsyslog hangs if setuid during logging process causes further logging

2015-01-25 Thread Stephen Parry
Public bug reported: I have a server which uses slapd and libnss_ldap based authentication through nsswitch.conf as per the manuals. After upgrading to 14.04 we lost our logging altogether; syslog was un-installed. After first installing syslog-ng I switched to using rsyslogd. The server hung c